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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Increase the data point limit to allow for more than 32767 data points (INT16_MAX)

Some applications have large amounts of data points, and to display, for example, a year of data, requires more datapoints to be possible. It would be desirable for a higher limit to be available.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Ability to add tables to both defined views and unions

Using Data Modules, currently after creating a view or union, there is no way to edit the view or union to add new sources to be included. We have the ability to add or substract existing elements from the original view but no way to include new s...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

CA11 WebBased Modelling - JDBC Connections / SignOns will be not sorted

In reporting, the user may be shown various connections for selection. These connections are in alphabetical order. If JDBC connections are used, they are not displayed sorted. This concerns Web-based modelling. JDBC connections should be displaye...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add BoxPlot to available Dashboard/Story Visualization options

The BoxPlot is an available visualization option in report studio but has yet to make its way over to the Dashboard tool. We would like to use this visualization in multiple dashboards.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add Rename to the more (...) shortcut menu

Many find it difficult to figure out how to rename objects within the CA portal -- whether that is renaming a report, a subscription, a package or whatever. Some of us know how to rename objects but it might be helpful to add a "rename" option on ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Support for spatial datatype in Cognos BI

Nowday many companies have location based data stored in the database. The location based data can be a location or area on the field. Many database vendors supports geo spatial datatype and functions like DB2, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option in portal to have folders/objects for Recent, Content, My Content or custom views appear in list view by default (instead of tile view by default)

Coming from release 11.1.7 to 11.2.2 users are more used to a list view for navigating to folders, reports, dashboards, etc. Users are also used to a list view when using the legacy portal to open cubes in Analysis Studio. We would like the option...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1

Export a report filtered results to excel

I need to export a results froma a html report where I have applied some filter on a results. I don't want to submit again the report to execute in excel format, because I lose my filter
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to create 'Folders' in 'Data source Connections' in admin portal

Please add ability to create 'folders' in 'Data source connections' in admin portal 'configuration tab'
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Master-detail optimization in reports based on data modules

Currently, Master-detail optimization is the feature that has to be explicitly enabled by turning on a specific FM DQM governor and publishing the FM package. Without that feature turned on, most reports and burst reports containing master-detail ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration