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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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Customize data labels on dashboard

We would like the ability to change the label of a data item that is displayed on the dashboard the way we can change the label in the report authoring environment. This will authors to create cleaner looking dashboards when using data items that ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Add Data Set operations to audit logging

Add user actions surrounding data set creation/modification/refreshes to audit logs. When researching when a data set was refreshed, there seems to be nothing in the audit logs that stores that this action happened. Request data set refresh and an...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Data Set history - Allow user to set how many runs to remember

Add capability to change how many/long run histories to save for data set refreshes. For a report, click the ellipses > Properties > Report tab > Advanced. The screen allows the user to change "Run History" from the default of 5 Occurence...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Support Multlingual labels for data items.

Our clients are multilingual and we would like the ability to support multiple languages in a data module to leverage its many advantages over framework packages.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1

Use a value as a parameter to which you can assign a color thru the whole dashboard or BI environment

When you move within reports and/or to a Dashboard. It would be great if the same color would ALWAYS stays with the same item (Product, KPI, etc....) Even as simple KPI Answers as Yes , Very Likely , Sometimes or No . We can assign a number at the...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Make Watson Analytics for Social Media data available in Cognos Analytics

It would be great to be able to use the Social Media data currently available in Watson Analytics for Social Media, as a data source in Cognos Analytics.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for database images in Cognos Reports

Our oracle database tables include images stored as BLOB or VARBINARY datatypes. We would like to show these images in a Cognos List Report, to be displayed with rest of data. This functionality needed by multiple county departments.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Comboboxes as new prompting control

This is a request of a new Prompting control which is a combination of the existing text box prompt (type-in), value prompt (drop down) and search & select prompt. The user should be able to select a value within the text box. A source / stati...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to define range for the Colors within Dashboard Color Palette

Currently Color Palette for the Dashboard Visualizations allows to define Custom Colors (along with the predefined Color Palettes available) with Low to High range of values but cannot define what the Low and High Values are.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Include interactive report runs in Past Activities Cognos Administration list

In Cognos Administration, the Past Activities list currently only shows previous report runs run in the background, while the Current Activities list has the option to show either Background activities or Interactive activities. As an administrato...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration