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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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Easy means of creating page breaks was removed from Cognos Analytics; Please Add it Back

In C8 and C10 it was very simple to add a page break to your report by clicking on the data item and choosing a menu option. This shortcut was taken away in Cognos Analytics. In CA you must manually create the page set. This is completely inconsis...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capability to pass an individual's user account and password from Cognos Analytics on Cloud to the Google BigQuery database

We must have the ability to pass an individual's user account and password from Cognos Analytics on Cloud to the Google BigQuery database. This is very important as we plan the rollout of self-service reporting capabilities to our user community. ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Maps Hints

It should be possible, as a property, to define the hint displayed when mouse hovering over a country for example. Background: currently when using latitude and longitude, users are confused by seeing those GPS coordinates which are not bringing a...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Calculations to use the current name as in reports when calculations are used in dashboard

We would like the names of calculations used in other calculations when the name of the calculation is changed. Currently it will always show the original name of the calculated member.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Calculations that span dimensions - valid for crosstab, invalid results for lists

Calculations (on dimensional model) that span dimensions give valid results for crosstab, invalid results for lists. Specifically for lists when combining with filters.See TS000148887 for use-case we had.See ibm document 'calculations that span di...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Many Time and Relative Time changes needed in Cube Designer

Several Relative Time issues enhancements needed • We need the ability to hide any relative time that is automatically added when relative time is set to true. Some are not what the business wants and for some of them the %'s are not wanted eith...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Query Studio filtering functionality to WSA/Cognos 11

Query Studio contains the “Matches SQL Pattern” operator that allows users to very easily input multiple partial values when filtering on a field. WSA/11 offers the same operator but only allows one value to be added at a time (even if using t...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Increase Number of AD User Groups that OKTA can pass to Cognos Analytics

The issue is with the actual number of AD user groups that OKTA can pass through to Cognos. We have 321 AD user groups at Mattel and the current OKTA limit is 100. This issue is delaying our migration to the IBM Cognos Cloud. We need the following...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Rich Text Source Type to be External (Markdown or HTML support)

Problem We have started creating a pre-report page that includes methodology, links to issues (we use GitLab), links to other reports, and most important highlights from the current report. When adding the details to the first page, we use the "Ri...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Screen should remain in full screen when moved from one dashboard to other using drill through

As a user if I select the full screen option , it should remain in that mode until i change it. Currently, when I select a full screen and navigate it to a different dashboard using drill through, the full screen mode will be exited and I need to ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration