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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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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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Need an ability to set our own color to a specific value in treemap color by value visualization

currently the Tree map color by value visualization will represent the colors based on values in the map. but if we want specify a particular color to a specific value for example "white" color "zero 0" value there is no way.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add same table multiple times as role playing dimensions in data module

In the data modelling component, it should be possible to add the same table in multiple times to be able to create a datamart with roleplaying dimensions.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of Connector option in Dashboard Module

Currently the connection option allows either connect or disconnect the dashboard elements to each other. It should also offer to make connection more flexible so that an element can be set on partial interactivity on a dashboard. Please read the ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add .Jpeg/.png widget

There is a need for end users to have the ability to add a picture of their choice to Cognos Analytics dashboards. The current methods are restricted to: -url photo location -Custom gallery generated by an administrator Neither of these two opti...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Viewer: Add right menu option to sort crosstab table ascending or descending on particular column

When report is executed and displayed in Cognos Viewer add right menu option on columns to "Sort ascending" and "Sort descending" option on column. When action performed crosstab should be sorted according to selected one column sort option. P.S. ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Job queue visible to any Author with access to the Job/Report

At our university, each department has its own reporting team, and they are responsible for scheduling their own jobs and reports. However, Cognos only allows a developer to see the reports that they themselves scheduled -- not the entire departme...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules Relinking View To New View With Different Name

Currently we have test environment and production environment for both the database and Cognos , Views that are being created on test database have a different name than the ones on production . Users are creating data modules on test server using...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Cube: there is no way to model a dimension such that members can move within a level without breaking a report

Reports (both professionally authored and business authored) break if they include members that have moved within a level. If a report is created with members, and these members move to a new parent, then that report will no longer run. There is n...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add identifier of the element in folder on Tile view (like List View has)

Tile view does not contain any identifier for elements in HTML unlike the List View. And we need to determine what storeID is associated with a specific item in DOM (report/dashboard etc) on Tile view. Please see screenshots for details. Tile View...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

RANK in Cognos Report Authoring

We migrated from Cognos 7 to Cognos 11. Users cannot create query calculations. Some users use only basic functionality in the reports. In powerplay there used to RANK option. Please create an option to create RANK column field in Cognos report au...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration