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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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Added a 'highlighter' color option that would allow sections of a report image to be highlighted

Added a 'highlighter' color option (e.g. translucent) that would allow sections of a report image to be highlighted either by using the pen or a drawing object (e.g. rectangle) instead of just underlined by a pen or outlined by a box.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide status indicator when performing LDAP searches

There are many enhancements to improve the way that Cognos searches through LDAP servers but what would be helpful in the interim would be some sort of status indicator that Cognos is working on the search. Right now it just appears as if the page...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search Path visibility in Properties of an object

In Cognos 10.2.2 we were able to get the search path of the object from the properties menu. In Cognos 11 we have no possibility to get the search path of the object. The search path is a important information for us when searching for problems in...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Cognos Analytics 11.1 support for TLS 1.3

To allow the product to support current security standards, TLS 1.3 should be added to the security options for Cognos Analytics 11.1.x
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

open and use attribute (expand) content for datamodules in report creation, same as functionality in dashboards

We want to use the datamodules "members" in report creation directly. Same as the usage in dashboard. We can expand for example a attribute "country" to show up the distinct categories like "germany", "france" etc. for selection and filtering. Th...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Active Directory as a Datasource

We use AUDIT + AD data to look at the environment utilization. Having Active Directory details within the reporting environment helps us connect to the users and their managers readily (with the email or phone info available in AD). If we see long...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Interactive filtering in the visualization map

Interactive filtering in the visualization map
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Include default font with slashed zero

We had a customer ask us to add a custom font because all of the included options did not offer a slashed zero. I was able to add the custom font, but we were surprised that of all the Cognos included options, none of them included a font that off...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI - enable crosstabs to return all data (text and dates) from data sources, not just numeric data.

System: Cognos BI tools with Crosstab Funcationality (Advanced Workspace, Report Studio and Analysis Studio). Actor: BI authors and consumers The crosstab feature in BI tools does not display text or date formatted cell values from an OLAP data so...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

OIDC certificate cache removed

After a certificate was updated on the ADFS server, Cognos Analytics had to be restarted before it would accept the certificate because certificate authority certs last so long that is no need to update the intermediate and root certificates in th...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration