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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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C11 Reporting, have users default to off for automatic group and summary behavior for list

For C11 Reporting we would like to set the default to NOT automatically group and summary behavior for lists. Currently the default is to HAVE automatic group and summary for lists. C10 the default was NOT to have automatic group and summary for l...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Provide ability to save reports to File System in Cognos Analytics Cloud

For Scheduled Reports, provide an option to save the reports to File System in Cognos Cloud. This was available in 10.2.2 but is not available in 11.0.6 Cognos Cloud.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Improve display of long report names when editing it in Properties

In Properties, when you edit a long report title you can't see the entire report name and must use your cursor to display parts of the name. Our report authors find this frustrating. Please improve the interface to display the entire name when edi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Create group and role on CA on Cloud Multi-tenant

We cannot create roles or groups at this time. Even though there is no maximum number of users, we are not allowed to group them and manage permissions.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Cognos integration with Databricks

Support Databricks Spark as a data source for Cognos Analytics
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 6 Delivered

Apply the capability at the object level for Dashboard and Data Module

In our company, every one has the reporting capability for self-service. Some of them belong to a solution casual user. They can run the report against the package. So, they need the package access. We want to restrict the capability at the packag...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Assess SQL Server 2019 and Windows Server 2019 for Cognos Analytics compatability

I have looked at all applicable software compatibility reports and the like and can see that Microsoft SQL Server 2019 is not yet supported as a content store or data source (for 11.1.1 and 11.1.4)...and that Microsoft Windows Server 2019 is not y...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Unable to update axis titles on dashboards

Unable to edit or transform axis titles on dashboard. Need to be able to change axis titles and allow for the ability to define the look of the axis labels. Can't define horizontal vs vertical vs 45 degree angle. Best viewing of axis labels change...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

CAR11: Missing Union function in the data module

Union function is missing in the data module. how do we combine 2 data sets..one might be a file and another one from FM package.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Missing prompt-functions in report using a data module

As stated in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.1.0?topic=dmfm-framework-manager-features-not-supported-by-data-modules, some reporting functions are not supported with a data module as source for a report. The "Select & search pr...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 3 Delivered