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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.

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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Show Tabs on Dashboard when set to off, shouldn't show this tab

In CA 11.1.1 dashboards the single dashboard was removed and the tab dashboard got a tabs property to turn the tab on or off. When you turn the tab off, the All Filter and This Tab filters show. It doesn't make sense to show a this tab filters whe...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Automatic loading of data in spreadsheet files

Scenario: We uploaded spreadsheet files in Cognos Analytics and on these we created a data module. Now we need to update the data contained in the speadsheets weekly. Currently there is no functionality to upload automatically the spreadsheet files.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Dashboard: Have some of the Properties accessible to users as Prompts

Your Dashboards are starting to get better but some of the Abilities/Properties are stuck in either Show ALL or NONE to users depending on their Capabilities/Permissions Some Properties would be great to have them as part of the Dashboard as Promp...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Setting to create new reports as not interactive

We need the possibility to set all new reports (including those opened from clipboard) to not interactive.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

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

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

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.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Conditional formatting for a point in the visualization map

Conditional formatting for a point in the visualization map
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Showing more than one label in the visualization map

Showing more than one label in the visualization map
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Cognos URL parameters to specify user Content and Product Locales in Cognos Analytics 11

Previous versions of Cognos were able to to specify the Content and Product locales in a URL. Please provide the same functionality with Cognos Analytics 11 so a URL can be created to specify the Content and Product locale that will be displayed w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release