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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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Lists and Crosstabs on a Dashboard

There needs to be more control over font size and cell padding for lists and crosstabs on a dashboard. Being able to control font size and cell padding would help to make the lists and crosstabs more visually appealing.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Allow disabling Save as on reports and dashboards

Allow team administrators to disable Save as functionality on specific reports and dashboards for specific users / groups / roles. Otherwise, it's not possible to secure a package - even if it's invisible, users with Dashboards and Reports capabil...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to enforce an end date for a scheduled report or job.

This will allow Administrators to better manage schedules and not have users create schedules that could be in the system for an extended period.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 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...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Using SAS data sets in Cognos Analytics

Ability to use SAS data sets as a data source in Cognos.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filters for Mobile Dashboard

At the moment, it is very easy to create filters on desktop for different metrics on a page level dashboard. Unfortunately, the page-wide applied filters doesn't affect the metric when viewed on the mobile app - IBM Cognos Analytics Mobile. It wou...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Data Module- Dynamic Data Item Screen Tip

Automate Screen tip for data items in the Data Module so the developers do not have to manually type a text under Screen tip for data items. An enhanced option would allow a developer to select a data item field under Screen tip properties in Data...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Sort visualizations by data not shown on the visualization similar to Report Studio

When using a relational model with a time query subject the the month query item (which contains only the month name) is sorted on the visualizations alphabetically. In Report Studio we are able to specify that the sort is based on our month epoch...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New capabilities for CSV and PDF export

As we want to make sure we follow security standards for our Cognos platform in Production environment (no PDF/CSV/XLS outputs allowed), we currently managed to remove PDF/CSV/XLS report export capability for our customers in Production - CA versi...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Produce Cognos output in MS Word

Need to be able to run a report in OpenPages, and have the ability to edit it in MS Word. We currently have a report designed that pulls from fields in multiple objects, designed to replicate an Operational Risk - RCSA report we used to produce in...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration