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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.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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Change search box color

The stark contrast from black to white can be a problem for some users. Suggest allowing ability to customize the background color of the black search box at the top menu bar (11.2.4 version).
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

System default choice for list view

When looking at team content reports on a list view, you can choose the settings/row size, with options for compact, short, and default. We want to make one the system default. We don't have the option to do so.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Add Parameter Map to Data Module

Parameter Map was a very good feature in Cognos FM. Since we are moving towards Data Module this feature is not available. I attached the use cases
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow ability to adjust column widths on a table visualizatin in a Dashboard

currently the properties show settings for columns width for a table visualization on dashboard, looking at 11.1.4 on sandbox, but you can't adjust the width. So if you have 5 columns they spread them equally, when you might want to make a date ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Exclude folders from Cognos search

All folders in Cognos 11 are indexed by the cognos search by default. So the consumers also get the search results from the internal folder of the report developers. 1) It would be helpful to exclude these internal folders from the cognos search, ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

create dataset from report

Need the ability to create datasets from reports. Current feature only allows creation of data sets from package
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Shortcuts to reports should have similar functionality as the the reports they reference

In Cognos 10 we relied on using shortcuts to reference reports so that users could run a report easily without having to know the exact location of the source report. In Cognos 10, you had all the same run options on a shortcut as you did on the s...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Revamp Event Studio User Experience based on Carbon Design

Cognos Analytics User Experience has been revamped based on carbon design in 11.2, however the Event Studio tool has not been updated since 10.2.x version. We do not show event studio during our prospective customer presentations, because of how o...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Extend Cognos Analytics product documentation by information about 3rd party certificates

I was activating ssl in a customer's productive cognos analytics environment. I followed the instructions of the corresponding product documentation for cognos analytics 11.2.4: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=ecmica-conf...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Dashboard - Renaming Data Item Fields/Label and Field Header display

On the Cognos Analytics Dashboard, currently there are no direct way to rename "Data Item Name" and "Data Item Label" (Display name). This feature available in Congos Reports - where users can click on the field and chose to Rename "Data Item Name...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration