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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.

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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Add county labels to new maps

On a legacy map, when a county has data the county's name is displayed on the map. On the new maps, county labels are never displayed on the map. A user must hover on a county to see the county name. We would like to make displaying of county name...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add saved report outputs to search

Add existing saved report outputs to Cognos Search. They should be indexed and made available so contents of generated HTML-, Excel- PDF-, csv- and xml-files can be found via Cognos Search. There should also be an option to enable/disable search w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automate cvs upload for groups creation on OIDC namespaces

In a dynamic environment many groups are added very often in AD and requires to be added also in Cognos Analytics OIDC namespace. Automation the import of the CVS will improve the time spent to manually import the file. A nice feature will be also...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Ability to sort objects by type

In previous version of Cognos when viewing the continence of a folder could be sorted by type, so all packages would appear together, then by name. In Cognos Analytics all object are sorted alphabetically by name, or by modified date, regardless o...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Allow REST queries to be run asynchronously

Currently when using CADataConnector.read_data() to access data in Notebooks, there is a hard limit of 5 minutes. After this, the request will fail. This is caused by a timeout of 5 minutes on all REST queries. Please allow users to run REST queri...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Data Wrangling at upload time

Implement simple functions (eg : upper, lower, replace null by ,date casting, categorize, lines/col delete,…) to allow preparation and transformation at upload/refresh time. Our target : Avoid business users force to prepare/transform data with ot...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Location of business data

Use a dedicated database schema for report output and dataset storage. Report outputs and datasets stored in a their own schema (not the content store schema) Could be a new database store alongside the existing ones (Content Store, Audit Store, N...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

IBM Cognos PowerCube packages to run in 64bit (DQM)

We have a distributed Cognos platform hosting more than 20 business aplications. As some of them use PowerCubes we have to keep Cognos 32bits dispatchers and manage double Cognos instances (32bits/64bits). Our target is a full 64bits platform (ful...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Highlight selected row in list report

When scrolling horizontally on wide list reports (containing many columns) it would be helpful if selected row would be highlighted. Today the selected column is highlighted, not the row. (It would be ok if selected row and column would be highlig...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Ability to Custom size column and rows in Dashboard Tables Object

The table control auto sizes itself based on the data and is typically auto generating the ugliest possible format. Columns are way too big for some values, way too small for others, impossible to make into a small are to display some data. In 11....
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release