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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Create map with zip codes

Limited number of zip codes are currently supported for maps. We need a full set of zip codes in order to use the map functionality. Right now zip codes are showing as unrecognized location, even for major cities.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Reset default "Send report by email" to send to user's email account

From Cognos 8, 10 and through Cognos 11.1.6, the default action when a user ran with "Send report by email" was to send to the user but in 11.1.7 Cognos changed to necessitating the user to select "Edit details" to populate their address by defaul...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Cognos Data Module - Restrict Table and Column Name Changes

When the Tables are imported into the Data Module Column Names with Characters such as underscore (_), dash (-), or slash (\) are replaced with the space character and the names are changed to Camel Case. Replacing Table and Column Names is not id...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Not Able to Rename - Data Set Column

Problem : Not able to rename any column in Data set. Cognos Analytics Version 11.0.9. When a chart is created using a Dataset, it shows all business names. To Rename a data set column, we have to do a extra step of creating a Data Module from Data...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

option to upgrade reports specification automatically during an upgrade of Cognos Analytics

Upgrading report specifications never happens automatically when performing an upgrade of Cognos Analytics. We would like to have an option to automatically upgrade report specifications during an upgrade of Cognos analytics, if export/import of t...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Customer Default Color Palette in Dashboarding

We have created color palette specific to our organization. We can add it as default palette in reporting so user will see those colors. But you can't change default color palette in dash boarding. If you have to use organization palette, you need...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Ability to hide/filter out rows in a crosstab without the crosstab summary totals changing

Users need the ability to exclude (filter out) a line item in a cross tab but still have the amount from that line item be included in the summary total. Currently when you exclude the line, the summary total is reduced by the amount of the line.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Cognos BI to send encrytped email

Add the ability to BI to send encrypted emails containing report output (either as attachment or imbedded HTML).
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Configurable "smarts"

Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Show different report icon change if there is saved output available

One thing which made the old Cognos 10 interface better than the new Cognos Analytics 11 was the ability to look at the state of a report and tell, at a glance, if there was any saved output available. The new CA 11 interface does not provide this...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration