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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,

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  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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Dynamic (Relative) Default Value for Date Prompt

The date prompt is used in many financial reports, Including quite a few that have specific relative dates (actuals for yesterday, actuals for last month). The date prompts should be able to set dynamic default values (current_date - 1), however, ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Show Tabs on Dashboard when set to off, shouldn't show this tab

In CA 11.1.1 dashboards the single dashboard was removed and the tab dashboard got a tabs property to turn the tab on or off. When you turn the tab off, the All Filter and This Tab filters show. It doesn't make sense to show a this tab filters whe...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Setting to create new reports as not interactive

We need the possibility to set all new reports (including those opened from clipboard) to not interactive.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Client side rendering of interactive reporting

Client side rendering of interactive reporting will enhance the user experience a lot. It will also reduce the load on the Cognos servers 1. Faster sorting (and other operations) where no new data retrievals are needed and the output is only sorte...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to Custom size column and rows in Dashboard Tables Object

The table control auto sizes itself based on the data and is typically auto generating the ugliest possible format. Columns are way too big for some values, way too small for others, impossible to make into a small are to display some data. In 11....
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Lists and Crosstabs on a Dashboard

There needs to be more control over font size and cell padding for lists and crosstabs on a dashboard. Being able to control font size and cell padding would help to make the lists and crosstabs more visually appealing.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Ability to select the ranges for heat palette for geographic heatmap

Ability to define ranges for heat palette in mapping capabilities.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to control Size & Overflow of Chart Objects on DASHBOARD via enhanced controls

Need ability to actual set Size and Overflow properties of Dashboard objects, such as Width and Height of a Bar Graph or a Heat Map through property similar to what we have in REPORTS or in Report Studio. Currently the Size can be changed only via...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Query focus disappears in design mode

In Report Design select the query option. Click on a query and then click on a query item. At that point if you have 10 queries in the report you can't tell which query you are editing. See Attached.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

11.1 Visualizations in report studio (bars) need custom sorting

11.1 visuals in report studio need custom sorting and/or TO MATCH DASHBOARDING functionality at the very least. Cannot sort by highest to lowest value. cannot sort by other columns in query
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release