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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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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...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

Be able to change ‘FROM’ field, when emailing a reprot, be able to type in an AD group.

This way the report would show coming from the area that needs to be contacted if issues or questions. Right now we schedule using the Cognos credentials and so any correspondence is currently sent back to the Cognos Administrator and not the depa...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

More meaning APAR Software version

When reviewing an APAR on IBM site, there is a "Software version" field. This field invariable lists some meaningless value. For example, https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH42408?myns=swgimgmt&mynp=OCSSTSF6&mync=E&cm_sp=swgimgmt-...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 Not under consideration

bring back history of a job

We have Cognos 11.1.3. In previous versions of Cognos, we could view the run history of a job under advanced properties of the job tab (see run history of a job not there.png). We need this information in order to determine when a job was run last...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Auto Hiearchy for Date Fields

In Dashboards Datefields are often used for drill down functionality. In the moment you have to define manually for every date-field in a datamodule or directly in the dashboard (if you use a Framework Manager Model) a hiearchy.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

List of data sources in Cognos Administration listed in a flat list. We should use folder structures.

There is no way to organize the data sources in Cognos Connection Administration.The current offering is a list. It would be more advantageous to allow folders so an administrator could group the data sources in a more logical manner. The problem ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Map showing Count on point size

I have created a Map Visualization using Patient Country/State/County/Zip as when it comes to smaller number when zoomed in at county level the Point Size/color look same for 1 to 300 patient Count, what we would like to see is showing count of pa...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Self service for Top or Bottom function

The standard selection for the "Top or Bottom" function in the report studio, is just the KPI of the crosstab.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Showing icons in RA for the queryitems the same as in data module

Showing icons in RA for the queryitems as in data module
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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