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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.

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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Auto and dynamic adjust of row and height of excel column for report output in Excel format

Application Team is looking for Auto/dynamic adjust of row and height of excel column for report output in Excel format
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Updating Timezone for Cognos Analytics service on CP4D

To align Cognos Analytics reports and logs timestamp with local time, for example from UTC to EST.
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cloud Paks 0 Submitted

Control what to show in on-demand toolbar in Report Studio

Currently the on-demand tool bar in the interactive viewer or the preview mode of the report studio has a good number of options. Most times the users may not need all the options. The favorite options however are sort, filters and aggregate only....
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Creating headers automatically for relational datasource in crosstabs

Creating headers automatically for relational datasource in crosstabs
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add Hijri calendar support to IBM Cognos Analytics

Enable Hijri ( Um Al Qura ) calendar support in Cognos Analytics: User profile preferences "Calendar type" (like Gregorian and Japanese Imperial) in each of the following: Reporting and Dashboards, the Data format dialog, when formatting as date o...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Specify 'No data contents' in RAVE-Visualisations

For lists, crosstabs,... it is possible to specify what appears, when no data content is available: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.0.0?topic=fd-specify-what-appears-data-containers-that-contain-no-data It would be nice to have the...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Full Support for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 15

Right now we are using Cognos Analytics on a SLES 12 SP5 OS. SLES 12 has EOS in 2024 and we need to migrate to SLES 15 (SP4 or newer). Right now the "Cognos Analytics Server" and the "Cognos Software Development Kit" are not supported on SLES 1...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Parametarized URL, passing data source connection as Store ID

With parametarized URL it is possible to pass report object via report path or Store ID, but it is not possible to pass data source connection as Store ID.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics and SecureAuth SSO

We require Cognos to allow us login using SecureAuth IdP provider, which uses browser authentication. This is a must for our users to connect to Snowflake from Cognos. At this time, Cognos server does not allow a browser to open and allow the SSO ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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