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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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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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Enable Cognos BI to integrate with FileNet CPE 5.2.1.5 and greater

Update the code to integrate between Cognos BI and FileNet CPE 5.2.1.5 and higher.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New Data lists: Insert Drill-Through

In Cognos Analytics there are the new data lists for reporting, which are quite useful. Unfortunately you can not insert a drill-through (like in a normal list object) to other report. That would be quite useful.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatically calculate data type

System: Cognos Analytics ReportingActor: User wanting to develop a report or explore data Cognos Analytics Reporting is used to explore data and produce reports, both of which lead to making decisions. Description: When performing a calculation us...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide method to change the default namespace search to Starts with the exact string

Please provide a method to set the namespace search in the Administration tab. Currently the default is "Contains the exact string". This can be an issue when users search a large LDAP. To prevent unnecessary long queries against the LDAP please e...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Right-click/context menu missing items it used to have

When selecting multiple objects, the right click menu doesn't have all the items it used to, so a lot of group actions are impossible.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to edit Tooltips more easily (Dashboards and Reports)

Would like the ability to more easily edit tooltips in reporting and dashboarding. Currently you can add HTML items and javascript to add more to tooltips, however it would be nice if this was an out of the box feature.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add a URL to a Dashboard

Would like the ability to add a URL to a Cognos Analytics Dashboard (currently not a capability in v11 RP5).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Enable Full Multitenancy features with Cognos Analytics UI

Currently the old Cognos Connection is required to use Multi-Tenancy features in Cognos Analytics. Customers want to have all features available using only the new Cognos Analytics UI.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Creation of report views only after interactive run of report

In Cognos Analytics, Report Views can only be created from the Cognos Viewer. Hence, you have to run an interactive report first, in order to create a Report View. This is generally a lot more time consuming then in Cognos 10 and hence not a good ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration
238 VOTE

Ability to freeze column headers in reporting crosstabs

The feature in dashboard crosstabs to freeze column headers is excellent, and should be replicated as well in the reporting environment. This is a long standing user request that is very difficult to achieve today.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration