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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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Ability to specify order in Cognos Analytics graphs (e.g. Geo, Unit)

We would like the ability to specify order in graphs in Cognos Analytics dashboards. The sort function is there but we have a specifc order for many data elements that we use to help manage the business.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

support for deployment packages via sftp process.

When customers transition to CAoC the only way to get reports deployed is via PMR. This is time consuming and PMR are not always followed up immediately, especially when timezone differences exist between customer and cloud operations. when custom...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Google BIG QUERY

We would like to request the support of Google Big Query
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Support for Windows Server 2019 with CA

Clients are proposing infrastructure upgrades that include updates to their server operating systems. Those using Windows servers want to use Server 2019, which is currently not supported by Cognos Analytics (latest version R11.1.3 at time of writ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Delivered

Maintenance of Images library in Cognos Analytic Cloud

Managing Images in Cognos Analytics Cloud is not convenient:- when adding images to reports, we are not able to browse folders to locate images.- the synchronisation mechanism between our server and IBM cloud servers is handling only 1 single flat...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Add colours to icons for quicker identification of object

Having all the icons black can make identifying folders/reports/packages etc difficult. If they were coloured as per Cognos 10 then it would make differentiating them a lot quicker on the eye. Especially folders as they no longer appear at the top...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Currently from the Cognos 11.0.10 Dashboards we cannot click individual bars or measures and drill through to reports corresp

Currently from the Cognos 11.0.10 Dashboards we cannot click individual bars or measures and drill through to reports corresponding to that measure only. This prevents users from viewing specific data counts that they see in the the Reports or in ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Add Location of object into startpage Recent overview

We would like to see that the location of an object that is shown in the Recent list on the Cognos Welcome page, is added into the Recent list in such a way that it is not needed to open the properties of this object first and clicking the Advance...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Ability to connect to Azure Analysis Services (tabular model cubes)

We need to be able to connect to our Azure Analysis Services cubes ("tabular models"), otherwise the only option for the use case will be Power BI.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Customisable axes in Dashboard Combo Chart

In CA Reports, it is possible to define the axes range for a combo chart. However, in dashboard, this feature is not possible. Our client would like to see the same data value range on a combo chart in a dashboard, but this is currently not possible.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered