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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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3000 data item restriction in dashboard visualisations

I see reference in the documentation for dashboards that dashboards will only visualize up to 3000 data points regardless of the visualization type. Is there any way to extend this value as this limitation makes dashboarding against data prohibiti...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

See my uploaded files and my amount of uploaded data

When exporting from onprem and importing to the cloud I, as an administrator, own all objects. After a few days I wanted to reload a small excel file but could not load because I had exceeded the limit of 500MB per user. I can not see which upload...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Future consideration

RAVE charts need Properties to support passing additional data in drill through

In a Cognos Report Studio report, we typically provide drill through from a chart to the same report, or to a different report. We typically need to pass several parameters as part of the drill through, including fields that are not present in the...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement Cognos Analytics REST API

Please enhance the existing operation on Content get/content/{id} with the possibility to add an extra field which is used to store the execution/runtime of a report (object)
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Logging of assignment of permissions

Assignments of permissions on all objects should be logged into the Audit Database or a log file. It's important to see who gives whom which permissions and when.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow for Dynamic Cubes in the Cloud

Multiple customers have requested the capability to create/utilize Dynamic Cubes with Cognos Analytics on the Cloud.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

pass a parameter through to dashboard link/url

As a user of the CRM system, I want to view a screen for a given Customer ABCDE and click on a Cognos Dashboard URL and let the session dynamically pass the variable ABCDE into the Dashboard URL so that the Cognos Dashboard opens up already filter...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Option to rename column headers in Dashboard object table

We use a table to display a Top 5 list based on a count on a date field. We would like to rename the column header "Date of Login (Timestamp)" to somethin more meaningful, as this column contains a count value. This is not possible.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add value labels to heat map viz

this ability to show value labels in the map is great, and being able to have the user pick whether they want to show the value, item, or value and item is very user friendly and valuable. Is there a way to make this available for other visualizat...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Sort Order

In Cognos 11.2 onwards, we should be able to sort the content in Team Content/My Content irrespective of the type of the object. Right now, if I sort, it first lists all the folders followed by Package. It should be sorted just like it was in the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration