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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,

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  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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Dark mode for Cognos Analytics

I love the dark mode homepage for the application, however the rest of the apps are all in a light mode. Would love to have a dark mode that is easier on the eyes. The user should be able to choose dark oder light mode and the value should be save...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Ability to remove the Archive tab of report versions

Customer would like to have an option to remove user/group/role access to the Archives tab in the report versions pane.PMR reference is TS001418135 - it seems the PMR ID still requires old PMR format.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic setup PDF page - New pdf feature/property that allows the report created using page set when run PDF for certain criteria to appear on the pdf page without causing too much white space at the bottom of pages when there is less data - which occurs when set a static page size for the output

This property will automate the data generation. Currently, for each server that we want to generate data, we have to enter in the report in editing mode and change the PDF page setup property to then run the report (run PDF) and change the proper...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Images does not contain Accessible Name (508 Compliance)

Element with no accessible name: Image does not contain an accessible name. This would cause a screen reader to not be able to read off this element. Ask: Can you add an assessible name to the element? Similar issue was raised for PMR long back...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

Make hoover colors changeable when customizing theme

We want to change colors when hoover over buttons in Cognos Analytics: * background-color * foreground-color (= text color) * selectLine And we want to change colors for active buttons (when user has clicked on a button): * background-color is c...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

OTF support in Cognos products

Cognos does not support OTF fonts while this would be required by some companies who possess only OTF fonts in their portfolio of CI
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to use Named Sets from Dynamic Cube as slicer/context filter in Studios

Named sets are a great addition to cubing technology, which are similar to creating "public" version of custom subsets that were available in PowerPlay. But they cannot be simply added to a report as a slicer or context filter.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - Data Server UI Modification For Useability

In the Manage, Data Servers UI in Cognos 11, can I alter the config files and add a comment up top, right below "data servers"? If we're going to allow users to create data servers, I want to give them some guidance And/or: can I alter the config ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

'JOB' in 'My Schedules and Subscriptions' breaks into multiple line items as per the number of reports

When you run a Job, my schedule and subscription screen does split the Job and its associated reports to separate line items as per the number of associated reports, we don't have a way to tie a report to Job from Schedules and Subscription screen...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Aprove or Reject comparison of Reports in LifeCycle Manager

After running a comparison of a report in LifeCycle Manger (LCM) we have seen a number of reports fail on some cosmetic differences.In the previous versions (version 10.2 or older) we were able to use a feature in LCM whereby we could Approve or R...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration