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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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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.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Frozen crosstab columns and rows in Cognos reports as a default

In current Cognos Analytics versions it is possible to freeze crosstab columns and rows in reports by right-clicking them. Could it be possible to add report feature that you could set crosstab columns and rows as frozen already when designing rep...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Display of Cognos Content from navigation folder as 10.2.2 by type of content

we found a different behavior when you navigate on team content folders. On Cognos BI 10.2.2, the content (inside folders) is order by type and then by name or date, it is easy to see the difference between reports, subfolders, view, dashboard. On...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Allow sorting of scheduled reports by Name

In cognos admininstration under Status > Schedules, Allow sorting the list of scheduled reports by Name. Currently we can sort by Modified Date, Status and by Priority. Quite often I have to visually search through my list of scheduled reports....
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Dashboard - Line and column chart - Ability to add more then 2 measures

We would like to display 3 measures with 2 different axis. Therefore the Line and column chart would be perfect. ... but we can only add one measure per axis.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Always show properties pane

In Cognos 10 and prior, when opening a report in edit mode -- you always had the properties pane available and didn't have to do anything - it was just there. In Cognos 11, when opening a report in edit mode -- if you want to change a property (sa...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Statistical Formulas / Calculations

Hello - We are running Cognos on Windows Server 2012 and MS-SQL Server 2012 and we have come upon the need to utilize a specific statistical functions in Cognos (11.0.8) but do not see it available. Is there any way to access this function or to e...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Context Sensitive help missing

When clicking on "Help" in Cognos 10.2.2 you were directed to a context specific help. For example, when viewing the properties of a folder, you were directed to the Administration and Security Guide section "Properties of elements".In Cognos 11 y...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Cognos BI - enable crosstabs to return all data (text and dates) from data sources, not just numeric data.

System: Cognos BI tools with Crosstab Funcationality (Advanced Workspace, Report Studio and Analysis Studio). Actor: BI authors and consumers The crosstab feature in BI tools does not display text or date formatted cell values from an OLAP data so...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add Sort Option to Map visualization

We want to visualize monitoring alert data on a geo map. Every alert has a severity value and a related color (red=critical, ...). Currently there is no sort option availailable for e.g. the map point color data item. As a sort option is also avai...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists