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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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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

Flag when a deployment has been processed in the dropbox and is ready for use

When a new deployment file is loaded to the CAoC SFTP dropbox there appears to be a delay while it is moved to the system for deployment. Our current automation waits 15 minutes after upload before triggering the deployment job on production. A fl...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future 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

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

Drill Popup Modal

Often times users want to drill into data, but don’t want to navigate away from the current report. It would be very useful to allow a drill to allow the target to be opened in the existing report as a popup or modal.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Add prefix or postfix to the report name upon saving the report.

We have a request from user. When the user enters a name to save the report in Cognos Analytics, is it possible to have an option to add some text (such as FOUO) to the report name either before or after what they enter?
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Full support for all Canada Postal Codes (6 digits) in Cognos Analytics 11 Maps

Current support for Canadian Postal Codes in Cognos Analytics 11 Maps is limited to the first 3 digits of the postal code. To satisfy reporting requirements, we are needing the ability to map the geographic areas for all Canadian Postal Codes with...
over 6 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

Better support for opening Analysis Studio in Chrome and Edge browsers - include the launch Analysis Studio icon in the Cognos Viewer when opening in the glass interface.

When using the Chrome and Edge browsers it is not possible to open Analysis Studio from a saved report view using the "native" glass interface. When opening the report view from the Cognos viewer opens the static HTML view of the report and the fi...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add more data server connections

Add connectors to Azure offerings, particularly SQL Azure.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release