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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,

  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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Add capability to input URL to local Mapbox server

For sites that are in closed networks, that have no internet connection there is an error when using mapping that goes to Mapbox. We would like to have the ability to define the Mapbox server location to be able to use this functionality.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Extensions: Folders as submenús

Posibility to define folders in json extensions, in orden to be able to agrup several reports/dahsboards in a collapsed view, and then expand this folder (navigable menú, not only executable reports)
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MDC file last update date and time that is not cube specific

Provide a function or variable that would display the MDC file last update date and time that is not cube specific. This would be used in the Report tool win Cognos Analytics whether on-prem or Cloud.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Visualization from Spreadsheet can refreshes automatically

Report as a datasource of visualization that can be run to scheduled to output to a spreadsheet/csv and the refreshed spreadsheet used as datasource. Currently manually uploaded spreadsheets are used as datasource. This can be ne time but graduall...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Audit Migrations

Need the ability within the Audit database/package to see details of a migration in a report for compliance purposes.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard - Set Fit Page to default On

In Dashboard, users can set the Fit Page property to On so that the dashboard does not scroll. It would be convenient if this property could be defaulted to On. Users are calling in because CA Dashboards are not fitting to the screen anymore. It i...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Remove option for users to sent themselves a blank email

In Cognos 10, when emailing report output the menu required either attaching the report output or sending a link to the report. In Cognos Analytics when a user is attempting to email themselves the report output, if they want to attach the report ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module: Combine fact tables (like a presentation layer)

I want to have the capabilities to regroup measures(columns) from different tables into one folder. In other words, having the possibility of using a presentation layer which reference the measures. At the moment, I have to make my user navigate t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Under review

Tree Map Visualization missing Master Detail option

The report has a list and tree map, and has a page set defined on County. Master-detail relationship has been added to show County level data page/tab-wise. The list shows the expected results. However the Tree Map does not support a master-detail...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Unable to convert the crosstab reports to charts

We are unable to Convert the existing Crosstab report to any Chart using Change Chart Type option/Change Visualization option from Demand tool bar as we are unable to view the charts under Demand tool bar's Change Chart Type/Change Visualization i...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration