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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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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,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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When adding chart values change the background behind the value itself

When chart values are added in certain visuals it is very hard to read the values. Giving the ability to change the background colour will improve the functionality. See image for example.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Drill- through reports should be opened in a new tab in TFUI in OpenPages 8.x

If a report is configured or ran in TFUI , clicking on a any drill-through links ( example a any summarized value) to open a detail report for view detail records of the summarized value, it opens the detail report ( i.e target report) in a new wi...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Support for CLOB data typs

Support for CLOB data type, for the substring and position functions. Currently you can only use the functions to string fields, and converting a CLOB to a string will not work if the CLOB is over 4000 characters. The Vendor specific functions, su...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Column Text Rotation for Crosstabs/Lists

We would like to be able to rotate the text of a column label in crosstabs/lists. Currently, practically only 90 degrees rotation is supported (using the Direction & justification property>Writing mode). Specifically, we would like to use t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Custom polygons via mapbox not zoomed in Cognos

Custom polygons via mapbox not zoomed in CognosThe map stays at worldview TS001308541
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Separate app install folders for Cognos for Microsoft Office and PAx tools - TS001084642

In the current state, the installation scripts are combined for Cognos for Microsoft Office v. 11.0 and for Planning Analytics v. 2.0.2 into one zip file Both tools are installed together at the same time and in the same client folder. Attempting ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show Folders in Data Module Relationships Diagram

Complexed data models with many tables, views, and relationships are difficult to work with in Data Modules. To improve the users' modeling experience, models need a way to visually organize their tables and relationships - similar to how Framewor...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

cdr migrate should allow code-set migration

If a customer needs to change the locale of a database, wants to standardize to a common locale etc then the only option is to unload the data and reload. On small databases this might be possible but for 99% of the real systems this is impractica...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

advanced filters in data modules not available

In order for data modules to be a suitable replacement for Framework Manager packages, we will require the ability to add advanced filters to tables objects within data modules. Currently, all that can be done is to pick from a list of values. I b...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Deploy - Export/Import Datasources

Deploy - when we check deploy datasources, cognos deploys all the datasources in the environment.1. Like other areas in Cognos - we should be able to create DS in groups, inside a nice folder and deploy then in groups or individually - with creden...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration