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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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Auto-layout feature for model graph in a Data Module

When creating a data module in the new web-based data modeling interface, a graph of the model is shown on the right side of the screen. Currently, there is no way to lay out the model other than manually dragging the tables around. It would be gr...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show All References to a Paramater

Add functionality to identify all references to a paramater within report studio design view.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Wrapping x-axis label on report studio bar charts

Need ability to wrap text on report studio bar chart.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report name & logo name (firm name) not appearing in Report Output screen in HTML report output, instead appears new report

Report name & logo name not appearing in Report Output screen in HTML while running the report , instead giving Report name as NEW REPORT with logo name it's not same case in cognos 10.2.2 steps: open in report in report studio run in cognso 1...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Db2 encrypt data source connection setup

We are trying to setup DB2 encrypt data source Connection in Cognos R6 - R13 thru JDBC to support DQM . Currently Cognos r13 is not supporting and it's falling .Opened CASE to IBM and suggested to open REF for this functionality
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to export report or story to power point

Users are demanding an export to power point so that board presentations can be pre-formatted and downloadable.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy email addresses from distribution list

Sometimes one needs to repoint a job step to another report or just send another report to the same or similar DL, so it would be quick to just copy the DL from one to another. However in the latest GUIs, the email addresses cannot be copied as te...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Show message when adding email address that is already in the list

When maintaining the email distribution list for a report, the interface doesn't accept an email address that is already in the list (which is good), neither does it give a message saying exactly that (which is not so good). As you do not know why...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Report Viewer filter Interactive mode form DMR reports

Cognos R13 Report Viewer filter (Interactive mode )Filter option is (+ symbol) is not enable to enter specific value for DMR reports and it's show for relation reports.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option to disable "all at once" execution mode for jobs

Hello, we would like to have option to disable execution mode ALL AT ONCE for jobs per user roles and also being able to switch the default as by using this execution mode for large job (lot of reports inside the job) one user can potentially take...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration