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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:


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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 new Visialization and ways to modify a visualization for Dashboards and Reports

Competetiros and even Excel can support semicircle visualizations. UPS got a Business requirement to implement that in one of our dashboards but unable to deliver
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add "Lock Page Objects" to Features in Accounts

Under Manage > People > Accounts in Cognos Analytics 11.0.x It is able to edit the visible features of the UI for different roles. "Lock" and "Unlock" are available for Reporting. In Cognos Analytics both menu options have been deleted and k...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow customization of line thickness on 11.1 visuals

I had ticket open with support to verify that this currently doesn't exist but it would be nice to be able to make the lines on 11.1 Line charts in reports thicker. The default is too thin for some users and there is no way to customize this prope...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Read Only Access to Permissions and Capabilities Tabs

Users who can't access folders or reports due to security settings don't understand what the security settings are to know what access to request. They can't see the Permissions and Capabilities tabs of the objects.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Newer OpenSSL support , at least 1.1.0

Support newer OpenSSL for Cognos 1.1.x and Cognos 1.2.x. At least newer than v1.1.0
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display Input Text and Options from Select and Search Prompt

Add functionality to display what the search terms typed by the user the and the search options chosen from a Select and Search Prompt.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

.NET Data Provider for Teradata

Ther Teradata DB gives the option to install the ".NET Data Provider for Teradata" database driver. Is it possible to implement it, so that you can choose this driver to connect to the Teradata DB in Cognos Analytics? Until now it is only possibl...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

reusable custom group

Instead of creating custom group in Data module for adhoc semi-adhoc report. or create a group for every single query or global query. The business is looking for a capability to do that directly in the explorer object
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

remove the default group by

Using the report studio on V11.1.5: When we drag and drop two objets in column section it automatically group by the first colunm. example: Country City Measure ---------------------------------------- France Paris 88 Marseille 55 Bord...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Calculate distance using geospatial objects

We want to be able to calculate who travels the longest distance using postal codes and who travels the longest distance most frequently.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration