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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Cognos Analytics

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When adding chart values change the background behind the value itself

When chart values are added in certain visuals it is very hard to read the values. Giving the ability to change the background colour will improve the functionality. See image for example.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Provide option to identify what Cagons data source is used in Data module

Unable to identify what Cagons data source is used in Data module
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

The possiblity to get more memory on Cloud

The possibility to purchase additional memory/resources to the Cloud environement. Currently only 16GB is available. 32GB is requested.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Add option to create report view from report shortcut for users

Add the same option for users as in Cognos BI 10.2.2. to create report views from report shortcuts in the Cognos analytics portal.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Using ECDSA root for RSA certificaten

To secure Cognos analytics internally, an internal RSA certificate has been created. The root of our internal certificates are all ECDSA. We can not change this, because then all our certificates no longer work. It would be good if Cognos Analytic...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More Analytic Functions in new Dashboard Environment

The new dashboarding tool lacks some fairly basic analytic features, such as top 'n' filtering, sorting / ranking over categories, 80/20 suppression. The lack of these features makes it difficult to use the visualizations effectively.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create report directly from dataset

Need the ability to create reports directly from a dataset without having to define the dataset within a data module.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Share report output with e-mail

In Cognos 10, we could e-mail from within a runned report and even a ad-hoc analyze from workspace advanced, In Cognos Analytics 11 This feature is missing.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option live query mode and cache

For most reports it's not relevant, the data is not realtime. For those reports I want to cache the data (within the report) for performance reasons. Whan i can choose a render option for a report Live or Cache (with a cache frequenty) Cognos will...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

SSO not working with 2 AD security namespaces

When logging into Cognos Analytics 11.0.4 using SSO with 2 AD security namespaces the login screen is presented but after clicking OK to a particular namespace, login fails with an error. There is the option to use a second gateway with second web...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration