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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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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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On dashboard lists visualizations sort nulls at end of list.

When sorting a column on a dashboard list, provide the option to sort null values to the end of the list.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve auto-prompting for Data Modules

Auto-prompts seem to leverage the underlying data type of the table/database. That's fairly short-sighted since numeric types can be used to represent non-metric data. For example the year or the month number of a time table. It's perfectly valid ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Watson Scores Less Than 0.5

When conducting research on the sentiment of tweets, it would be helpful to be able to see the score for each tone even if it is below 0.5.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need glossary and lineage functionalities for visualization in Report

At CFIA we are doing a POC for an important project that requires to utilize the glossary and lineage capabilities from InfoSphere IGC in the Cognos reports. However, it seemed that the glossary and lineage functions are only available for the tab...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos not able to connect to LDAP using Domain Name with multiple A records

Cognos Analytics 11.0.x and 11.1.x have an issue with connecting to LDAP using domain name when the domain name is configured using DNS with multiple records. We are raising this enhancement request as per the recommendation from IBM support ana...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make File upload size role based so that administrators can have control over the upload limit

Currently our management wants to give file upload limit for external users and Internal users. More for Internal and less for externals - Cannot do that
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow hierarchy levels to be picked from Planning Analytics (TM1) data source when adding to axes on Cognos dashboards

Currently, only the hierarchy from a TM1 data source can be added to an axis - by default, Level 1 is chosen in a multi-level dimension. A hierarchy level cannot be picked. This hampers the exposing of a desired level within a multi-level hierarchy.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Powerplay Web opens in a different tab each time the report is clicked

Since the new powerplay web doesn't have cognos return and exist button, our users can't go back to the main page. So they click on multiple cube reports and each cube reports opens a new browser tab. This is causing to have multiple browser tabs ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Most trivial function: SEARCH!

Cognos Analytics on cloud 11.1 1) I'm at creating a new report. 2) I'm at Report > Queries > Query1 3) when I'm adding filters to the query and I want to choose columns from the data module/package or whatever data source. example: DETAIL FI...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Add Home and Return Buttons in Legacy Portal

Have customized portal pages as per Legacy portal where users do not have capability to click on Home or Return buttons as they do not exist.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration