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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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Change fonts of the Recent viewed report

With version 11.1.5 we can't read the full name of the reports when we see the recent viewed reports, the workaround for now is to view the list. It would be great if we can change the font size.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Set scrollable area height for lists in other metric units (like percentage, cm, etc.)

On some occasions we make a scrollable report for customers. In this situation the reports we make contains one or more lists with a lot of items where the customer can scroll to find his information. Because not all users have the same computer m...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to use Horizontal Page Count in Conditionnal Style

We would like to have the possibility to use the Horizontal Page Count function in conditionnal style.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to expand a tree prompt element even if some elements are breaking hierarchy order

When a user has acces to the total of the hierarchy then doesn't have acces to the next level but has acces to the following level, elements from this level are not accessible from the tree prompt with rootMembers. As the total hierarchy display n...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Transformer Data Source Signon loops when it should provide a detailed error message

Viewing the data in Transformer or attempting to build a PowerCube causes the Data Source Signon page to be displayed. User enters credentials and clicks OK. The signon dialog is displayed again and this loop continues. Requested Change.An error s...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Consumer-Root in Public Folder wthin Cognos-Office

On BI-Server there is a feature to restrict content browsing for Users in Public Folder: System.xml ...In Cognos-Office this feature is not aktice. User are able to browse the entire contents of Public Folder. This feature should be implemented in...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Excel Data Export should consider Framework Manager settings (e.g. currency)

The Excel data export functionality not only ignores the settings in the report (ok) but also from the model (not ok). Even if a currency is defined for a measure in the model, the export will use the currency symbol corresponding to the logon lan...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set time restriction on reporting schedules

When scheduling a report, I would like to designate times when end users are not able to schedule their reports.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow System Administrator to have a custom folder(s)

As a follow up to the following, we are requesting a modification to allow system administrators to have a custom folder on the navigation bar. PI79148: CUSTOM FOLDER FEATURE DOESN'T WORK FOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR(http://www-01.ibm.com/support/do...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Making the data items in visualization (columns, rows, length, x-axis, y-axis,...) optional not mandatory

Remove the block on having some items in visualization mandatory, making them more optional and recommended like other BI tools to improve the user experience when creating objects and making them more udnerstandable.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration