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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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Embed Python, R or Spark code in Cognos Analytics

We would like the ability to embed Python, R or Spark code within Cognos Analytics. Not sure on where to put it, but I think the best place is likely embedded in a data module, to allow for reuse on multiple reports and dashboards.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Report from a Data Set

Customer needs the ability to use Reporting against Data Sets. Dashboarding is fine using a data set for high performance, but customer has needs for more control than what a Dashboard can deliver. Reporting against an aggregated Data Set is impor...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Utilities to monitor, manage, and/or control cloud disk and content store space usage, data sets, and user file uploads

Given that we are about to allow specific users to upload files for their own self-reporting needs, we would like utilities that allow administrators to monitor the space being used by such files on a per environment and per user basis. Better yet...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics should provide a way to download report in CSV format without truncation.

Users, who want to download large report in CSV format, sometimes receive incomplete report in case network is busy and slow for example. However, there is no way for the users to determine if the received report is complete or not. (Case #TS00240...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements to the Alert Banner

The Alerts Banner, started in version 11.1.4, is a very useful tool to communicate with users. Very handy for announcements like downtime, availability of reports or updates to the environment. Please add the following features: 1- Ability to add ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

'Fred is Red' - Make specific datapoints always have same formatting

When creating visualisations, there is often the problem that similar datapoints will show up differently depending on how you look at it. For example, when doing Social Media Analytics, 'negative' sentiment should always display in red, whereas '...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Low Volume Suppression

IBM WH is using Cognos Reports and Dashboards to report on healthcare data. Our customers have concerns about users being able to create reports and dashboards that can return field/cell values that could potentially identify an individual even if...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bring back Run Page option

Prior to 11.1.1, if a report was set with Full Interactivity to 'No', you could go to the pages section of the report and right click just to run a single page. This functionality was removed in Cognos 11.1.1. Please bring this back as it's very...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Dynamically Filter List of Report Names in Folder

In addition to the "Filter By type" and Sort By options at the top of a list of Report Names in a folder, provide a text box to Filter the list. For Folders with many reports it takes a long time to scroll down in segments and a long time for the ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

11.1 Visualizations in report studio (bars) need custom sorting

11.1 visuals in report studio need custom sorting and/or TO MATCH DASHBOARDING functionality at the very least. Cannot sort by highest to lowest value. cannot sort by other columns in query
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release