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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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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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"When a dashboard is modified the resulting changes to the spec are unsaved and therefore not logged as executions against the original dashboard name/path. Please submit an enhancement to capture 'unsaved actions' on dashboards to logged."
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include Personal entries in full backup Content Store

Personal entries from users such as Recent entries and objects in My Content are not part of the current full backup functionality. Please add functionality to backup and restore such content.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Connectivity to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Our organization needs to be able to profile and analyze unstructured data in Azure Data Lake Gen2 and create reports. At this point, we are forced to use Power BI for this reporting need because Cognos Analytics does not have this capability to c...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Do not log error messages in cognos logs when users use cancel button in prompt pages

we would like to avoid having errors in logs due to users using cancel button in prompt pages. Today when they click cancel in prompts there is error in logs/audit which we do not consider normal as it is standard user activity.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Repetitive values on axes of bar charts

For bar charts, when the x/y-axis range is less (<10) then the values on the axis tends to repeat. This happens because cognos auto range rounds off the numbers. The current chart auto-grouping of range works fine if the data range is large com...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release

Dashboard Hover Not Working

When using a dashboard visualization that contains a shape, the value does not appear when the mouse hovers over the visualization. The current workaround is to: create two identical summaries add a shape to one summary place the non shape summary...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Control Over Fully Interactive Toolbar

Being able to control what users within a role see allows you to setup one Dashboard for your entire population of users(no matter what level of expertise they have at running and understanding a report/data. Fully Interactive (FI) toolbar gives a...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Protect Export/Deployment File against Brute Force Attacks

Simple scenario: 1. Log in to application as an administrative user, e.g. as a user with the role Project_Developers. 2. Navigate to Manage > Content and create a new backup and protect it with the password 12345678. 3. Switch to the Restore ta...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Data Table with interactive features of List (i.e. sort by column)

We would like to use the new data table, that is available since 11.1.6 in our reports. But we are missing the interactive features, that are available for the Lists in reports. Especially the function to sort by any column is often used and needed.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

option to hide "My Credentials (Manage)" in the UI

Currently we offer Cognos as a service. The client subscribes to our product and can use Cognos as their analytics offering. Because the service is physically hosted by us we need to hide My credentials (Manage) option
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration