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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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Extend REST API to configure and customize environments

We need a possibility to configure and customize our Cognos environments via REST API. It is not possible for us to do these tasks via Manage-UI, because we have dozens of environments and they should all be configured and customized identically. ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Responsive layout in reports

Hello, we would like to have an option to build reports with completely reponsive layout when scaling the screen (resolution), like zoom in/out or when users are switching the screens so that reports/dashboards will fit automatically and rescale. ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under 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

Improvements to Assistant AI

I feel the assistant is a step in the right direction, but there is much that can be done to improve the experience. Instead of relying on specified data sets, I'd like to define a series of default datasets that should be used unless otherwise sp...
about 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.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restore ability to apply the "Set as home" feature to folders

Please restore the ability to set a folder as home using the "Set as home" feature. Currently, this feature only applies to objects like reports and dashboards. This feature was available for folders in versions prior to Cognos Analytics.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add theming options for the new OpenMenu bar

The Open Menu bar is replacing the Navigation Bar in Cognos Analytics 12.0.x. It's actually just a naming difference more than anything else. They both are the effective left bar in the user portal that contain links to your My Folders, Public Fol...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Provide Export/Report of customized Features

Need an method to compare the customized Features between environments (Dev/QA/Prod). Currently, updating Features (Manage --> Accounts --> Cognos.... then under group properties, Customization tab, Features) is a manual process and must be ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Content Store database to be stored in Always On High Availability SQLServer.

Please support the Content Store DB within SQL Server Always On - High Availability. We have proved this does work using MSSQL JDBC driver 6.4, on Cognos Analytics 11R11, however it should be supported officially by IBM.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard User Input

We have a need to model a future scenario based on current data. This projection requires user input, and is accomplished via prompting in a report. Every time we want to recalculate the projection value due to a changed assumption, the report mus...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration