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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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Graphs and visualizations, trends, automatically display zero point data

When trending data (for example sales or counts per month) with a line graph, CA omits months from the trend graph that do not have sales or counts. This does not represent the trend correctly since it is important that there were no sales or coun...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Cancelling A User's Subscription

Having the ability to cancel a subscription would be helpful. They just sit out there and fail in bulk and there isn't really anything that can be done about them.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Uploading cognos report output directly in google drive

Uploading cognos report output directly in google drive
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Ability to change the Identifier of a data source in Data Modules

Each data source used in a data module gets an identifier assigned by the system. This is seen in the properties of the data source. There identifiers are used to define data items in queries when developing reports. They currently are meaningless...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Root Folder by tenant for Multitenant Installations

Currently you can specify a custom folder for a tenant and it shows on the menu bar, but it is still referenced under Team Content as a sub-folder. We have the scenario where we have our base content that needs to be deployed on a per tenant basis...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Refreshing License Count from Cognos Administration

In Cognos Analytics 11, the license count is defective. When user is not a member of any Administrators' group, it still counted as the administrator license.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Cognos Server to support SAS JDBC

In the list of vendor-support client driver, SAS JDBC is not supported. RHB Group has made Cognos as enterprise business analytics tools, that connect to various data sources as their data strategy for RHB Bank Group. At the moment, the SAS ODCB d...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Drill through difference in IE from reports html vs PDF

When you open a report using html and choose drill through the screen looks different then if you choose a pdf and then choose the drill through. The PDF one allows you to see the parameters being passed but the html doesn't. See the difference ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Better manage Dashboard pins

If I want to make optimal use of (saved) dashboard pins, I would like to have these additional capabilities in the pin library: be able to create folders/groups be able to rename pins be able to add tags to pins, including one called "favorite" be...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Chart labels being too close to the markers

Chart labels being too close to the markers Note that sometimes the labels are not only too close but too far apart as well.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration