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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,

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  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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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

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

Client-Side Logging should be configurable so that an Administrator can enable/disble for Groups, Roles or Individual users

Client-Side Logging should be configurable so that an Administrator can enable/disble for Groups, Roles or Individual users
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Set Encrypt=false when using MS SQL Database

Since MS JDBC Driver 10.2, the default behaviour for the JDBC driver is to set encrypt=true; this causes issues with Cognos Configuration as the error messages when using the JDBC driver suggests that when the setting is SSL Encryption Enabled is ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Delivered

Ability to save upload file to a location other than my content

Currently when uploading a file it goes to my content, would like the ability to choose the location of where the file will be uploaded. The way it is now, you have to do a move to the location.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Add Support for SLES 15.x

I received a follow up response from our Product Management team. They confirmed the following: Hi Mark, yes, we currently don't support SLES 15.x. It will be great if you can ask the client to log an IDEA on this so we can track this request for ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 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

Filter Cascading functionality in Product and sub product is expected in Cognos Analytics Dashboard

Here we have two Data items such as Product and sub-Product in this it should be as parent and child releaionship for ex if we select DDA product only DDA releated subproducts Should be visible in Prompt
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Select "Forward match" or "Pattern match" in the field of "Filter condition" in the Report screen

In the field of "Filter Condition" in the Report Screen, when we search the item by "Pattern match" we have to use "%" in front of "search word". Some users find it difficult to use"%" .This function was included in Cognos BI 10.2, but it is gone ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered