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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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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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Data Modelling: Add ability to sort/re-arrange columns in tables alphabetically with a single click

This idea affects the web-based Data Modelling: When creating a data model you currently have no option to quickly re-arrange all columns of a table alphabetically. When dealing with large tables it is very cumbersome to arrange columns alphabetic...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Re-introduce SharePoint integration in Cognos Analysis

Cognos 10 supported integration with SharePoint. IBM Support has responded this integration has not...yet...been implemented in Cognos Analytics. My client (SKF) would like it restored.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Default the report properties to the report view properties

There is no way to change the Default Portal Action globally, only at a report level but it does not propagate to the report views. A report is created with the 'Default Portal Action' changed from the default of 'View most recent report' to 'Run ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option to configure Advanced Properties when connecting to Audit/Notification/Mobile Stores

Currently, when configuring Content Store repository details in Cognos Configuration, we have the ability to define additional parameters for the connection string. This options is not present when configuring Audit/Mobile/Notification stores. Thi...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Drillthrough option to open in New window

It will be good to have the ability to drill-through from dashboard to open in new window, like from Report if we can have check box to select this option it will be nice
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Auto Resize Result List

the properties.js file is not supported in the new Analytics interactive viewer so SYSTEMPROPERTY_CSEARCH_AUTO_RESIZE_RESULT_LIST will not work when set to true. This is something that worked in 10.2.2 and no longer works.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Crosstab and List Rave 2 visualisations

Crosstab and List Rave 2 visualisations to use in active reports. This will allow for the crosstab and list to be filtered by a category not being displayed in the values. Same behaviour as charts.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change/Specify Name of Field in Legend

Lack of customization in RAVE visualizations is a major impediment to adoption. Need the ability to customize the field names within the legend in all of the different visualization templates.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add/Enable XQE profiling to Log My Session

We have a need to look into report/dataset performance problems in our production environment. For this we intend to use Dynamic Query Analyzer to analyze log files generated by Cognos Analytics. Currently these log files requires to be turned on ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Row based security using session ID in Data Modules

We have a need for row based security in the data modules. Ideally we would be able to filter content based on the session id of the user against a security table that is part of the model. Our business analyst users can do this in other tools and...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration