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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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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Provide option to use the full dataset when advanced analytics only uses sampled data

The problem: Users can receive fast pattern warnings that indicate analysis was based on sampled data AND that there is no reliable predictive relationship. These users would be interested to see if the sampled data is representative of all data i...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change data source on an upgraded data set

If you have an upgraded data set which has a data source with multiple data source connections (i.e. DEV and PROD) then when you replace the package you are not prompted to select a data source connection. If you create a new data source in 11.2.1...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Enable Similar Behavior within safari whether on iPhone or iPad

Today if a user navigates Cognos and runs a report using safari on an iPad, behavior is as expected, you can pinch to zoom and pan left to right, or scroll top to bottom and see the entire report. The same behavior on an iPhone is a different expe...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

My Activities and Schedule - Ability to turn on/off Graph Viz Chart from past/upcoming activities

Currently most of the screen gets covered by the graph/chart and user has to use slider bar to see the reports and its run details etc. Its not very convenient. There should be on/off button to enable / Disable the chart/graph so that user can use...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Hide "What's New" banner (home page) for group of users

We would like to show "What's New" banner for some groups of users and hide for another. It would be nice to hide the banner base on user role or group.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Azure BLOB storage cloud connection to save report output

In Cognos 11.1.5 are Cloud Object Storage providers introduced. With this solution is it possible to save report output to an external Cloud Object Storage provider like IBM, Google and Amazon. Azure, one of the biggest cloud service providers, is...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Exclude Admin Accounts for Data Size Limits

We have a host of critical object data sets and file uploads along with some user adhoc data files and sets but we own and schedule the critical files with an Admin account however have bumped up against the Size Limit of Stored Data Per User and ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Increase the default height of the description field to 10-15 lines

The description field is an attribute from reports, folders, ... which is displayed in the properties of the object in the Cognos portal. It has a relatively small height and only 2.5 lines can be shown at once. The field height cannot be increase...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Functionality already exists

Enable or disable cache setting globally

Currently we can enable or disable the cache setting at individual report/dashboard/Data Module level. Sometimes this cache setting helps in improving performance and some time disabling it helps the performance improvement. If such setting is ava...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Cognos CM Tool enhancement

Currently CM Tool is working with only LDAP/AD authentication. Can add OIDC authentication or CAM Password authentication in CM Tool.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration