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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

Create Data Module from Report Queries

Data Modules should allow for more advanced features, such as sourcing fields from a Reporting query for instance. Then we could add more complex logic to Data Module data sets.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Exporting Stories as a Powerpoint

Since creating a Story looks a bit like creating a powerpoint, a few customers asked me whether it is possible to create a powerpoint file from a Story or Guided Journey (Prezi?).
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reporting Time Functions should use the Time zone set in Cognos Global Configuration

Reporting Time Functions and Tool box items should use the time zone that has been defined in Server Time Zone in Global Configuration.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos DataModule needs to allow role playing dimensions

Cognos11 DataModule needs to allow role playing dimensions.Right now the data model does not allow role playing.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lineage - display query subject filter name rather than 'Embedded Filter#'

In IBM Cognos Lineage filters defined in Query Subjects in Framework Manager packages are displayed as e.g. 'Embedded Filter 1' rather than displaying the defined name of the filter in the package. As this information is not visible for the lineag...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to sort FM package field names alphabetically in Report Studio

In Report Studio, we would like to see a sort option added to the display of columns in a Framework Manager package query subject. Many times the columns are ordered a logical fashion, not alphabetically, but when there are many columns it is diff...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need an ability to set our own color to a specific value in treemap color by value visualization

currently the Tree map color by value visualization will represent the colors based on values in the map. but if we want specify a particular color to a specific value for example "white" color "zero 0" value there is no way.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Secure "attach report to email" as a package or report level capability

Within an organization, different data owners often have different policies about attaching data/reports to email. Cognos Analytics should support a more granular configuration for this permission.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove _en-us suffix when sending reports in Event Studio

I'm sending reports in excel format to a system to automatically load the data. However, the system does not like the suffix _en-us, specifically the dash.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration