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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Restrict the size for a report output

We need to limit the size of a report output (i.e. pdf, csv, xlsx) to a maximum size. Defined by us. A warning message should be produced for the users in case that the report exceeds this defined limit. Unfortunately this functionality is current...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 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...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 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...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filters on Canvas

When creating dashboards in ESA you can add filters to your canvas but have no ability to format the filters to make them easily read or tie in with the format pallet or typeface used on the rest of the dashboard. This means if you resize the filt...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

IPPA Support for MS SQLServer through Windows Authentication

We have Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 installed using Azure for SSO, and MS SQLServer through Windows Authentication for all store db's (content store, notification store, etc.). After a long support call, we found out from IBM that IPPA database creati...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future 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...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under 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

View Active Advanced Settings

Currently when implementing advanced settings in the manage flyout, you must input the parameter, such as ContentApps.updateTargetObjectWhenOverwrite, and input a value, for example True. Once you have implemented this feature the only way to see ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatically reorder time categories on bar/column forecasts

The forecasting capability in Cognos 11.1.4 is awesome, and the fact that it automatically orders time categories chronologically rather than alphanumeric is doubly awesome. However it only does this in line charts, not bar/column charts.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Need Refresh icon on My schedules and subscriptions

In Cognos v10 the My schedules and Subscriptions has a refresh icon that is utilized by our company and business partners however, in Cognos v11 this feature has gone away
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration