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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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  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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Cognos Analytics

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Ability to copy values from a list, crosstab, etc in Cognos 11

The new interactive viewer in CA does not allow the ability to copy values from a list, crosstab, etc. Sometimes it's very important copy a value from a particular line of a report. It would be great if this functionality were added.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add the ability to manage language for the label of Drill-thru definition

Without this possibility, we must give a title containing the different languages (ex.: Analyse détaillée (Fr)/ Detail analysis(En))
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Event Agent

Ability to select multiple steps when adding a task in one go. For example, if I have 10 agents and I want to run them from a parent agent I can multi select them from the same folder they are in, instead of selecting them one by one. The result s...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

SAP BW Dataconnection out of Support on 31.12.2018

A data connection to an SAP BW system is to be set up.The client SAP NetWeaver RFC library 7.20 recommended by IBM is no longer supported by SAP as of 31.12.2018. SAP refers to "SAP NetWeaver RFC Library 7.50" as the successor.This driver cannot b...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Routing Rule Capability for Cognos Data Sets

Add the ability to assign a routing rule to data sets, like we can with FM packages.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for custom lines and points on Mapbox maps

Would love to see non-polygon objects like railway tracks, roads, shipping routes on a map and then control the colour and thickness with intensity of use (or something else). Mapbox Studio supports custom point, line and polygon objects. While su...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option for generic/custom JDBC driver

Access to production systems is done via custom JDBC driver, that uses itself the JDBC drivers from DB2 LUW and Oracle. We need to use this custom JDBC driver to access productive data from our Cognos development systems, for example in a complex ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic cubes with calculated measures in dashboard

I would like to be able to use calculated measures from a dynamic cube in dashboarding 11.x.x.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide show generated sql

For security reason i would be able to hide to basic users the possibility to show generated sql and so view the internal tables , connection,schema etc.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 2 Future consideration

Visualization: Able to assign colors to Attibutes

Being that the new Dashboard in V11 is interactive. Clicking on a specific area of a visualization act as a filter to the other visualizations within the dashboard. And you color palettes are sorted by the metric value. So when you pick a value (a...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration