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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,

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  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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Table Dashboard widget to add text commentary

Currently slides are used to present numbers and text commentary. A table is used to structure the text commentary. Moving to Cognos Analytics we would like to be able to replicate this text commentary in a table within the Cognos dashboard. Curre...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Enable aggregated bar totals on a stacked bar/column chart

We are trying to display value labels above our stacked bar charts. These values should show the aggregate values of each layer of the bar. However, unlike a regular bar chart, where we can show a total value on top of each bar, Cognos Dashboards ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow General Users to view "Run activities and schedules" without counting towards the "Admin" Licensce

Prior to Cognos Analytics, all users could view their "My Schedules" to see a consolidated list of all of their schedules in one place.In Cognos Analytics, this capability (Run activities and schedules) is now under "Capability > Administration...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use Microsft SMTP server Office 365 TLS

I want to use our SMTP Office365 (cloud Microssoft) for sending emails from COGNOS. Microsft uses TLS. The support said me that TLS is not supported by IBM COGNOS.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Fix Visualization Summaries

When hovering over the legend in a visualization, the summary item numbers are calculated COMPLETELY WRONG. For example, a line graph of the total year showing a ratio per month has all of the ratios ADDED together when hovering. This is completel...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

send email with multiple different report outputs in it

A user schedules many reports and emails the outputs. They receive an email for each report they have scheduled. The user wants a single email with all outputs. Today, this can be achieved using Event Studio. But this solution is very hard for a t...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Scheduling Reports

Now you have the possibility to schedule one report with one schedule rule. My suggestions is to create a multiple schedule for one report. My suggestion to resolve this problem is with an option of multiple schedules and with this two options: - ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Keep HTML view of report in browser when changing it to Excel version

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, users ran a report with prompts on the report page with the List in HTML. From the Viewer they would select Run > Excel, which would open a separate window browser Window for the Excel download. The original Cognos V...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

I would like to preserve the new line character(\n) when uploading data files.

When I upload an Excel or CSV data file to Cognos Analytics, new line characters contained within text columns are automatically converted to space characters. On the other hand, new line characters included in database text columns are handled wi...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Except, < and > filter in Dashboards

I have lots of customer requirements for dashboards which are type of “show values for all vendors except one special” or “Give me all customers with revenue greater than $ xyz”. There’s no good way in achieving this kind of filtering in dashboard...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release