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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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Ability to edit Tooltips more easily (Dashboards and Reports)

Would like the ability to more easily edit tooltips in reporting and dashboarding. Currently you can add HTML items and javascript to add more to tooltips, however it would be nice if this was an out of the box feature.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Auto scale of Report Output on all supported devices (responsive design in C11)

Create reports should be optimally displayed on each supported end device so that the user does not have to scroll on the end device.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support SAML 2.0 Authentication

Deployments are becoming a hassle with all our other applications supporting SAML based authentication except for Cognos based applications. We need to be able to support this ASAP.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Name of relative times in the Query using dynamic cubes

When using the relative times from a dynamic cube, the name of the period doesn't change in the query. The report show the right period when running the report, but it shows the period from the time of the report building date.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable 'take ownership' without having to give full permission

After importing content from onprem to cloud, all the ownership is set to the admin that did the import. Already had problems after that because of max upload restrictions of 500 Mb er user. Users that have write permissions should be able to take...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

"Modification date and time" changes every time a report is just run and not saved

In Cognos 11.0.7 Environments , the "Modification date and time" changes every time a report is just run and not saved. Ideally the date and time should change only after some modifications to the report are done and save button is clicked
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drill down with navigation path

Navigations Paths cannot be used like real "drill down" in report studio
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ordering Table Names and Column Names in Data Modules

When working in framework manager, I am able to sort columns alphabetically which makes the metadata easier for everyone to use. It looks like there isn't a way to do this in Data Modules in CA currently.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Load offline base maps to Cognos

Load offline base map to Cognos
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Cognos Audit Content

Enhance the delivered Audit content to better handle common audit situations. #1 - make counting unique report runs easierFor example: COGIPF_RUNREPORT has multiple rows in it for each report run, if the report has prompt pages. So: add something ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration