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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Changing the sources of existing tabs in Cognos Dashboard.

When any changes are done to the packages and created a new version of it but the visualizations of the dashboard will be of old version of package.It is difficult to change the objects of all the visualizations to the new one.So,is it possible to...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Directory Security

Under 'Team Content' There are various modules that should be limited to certain groups of people within the organization. Following the directions for version 11.1.5 of Cognos Analytics release ; using specific role to limit folders is a great fe...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Automatically Renew Credentials with Azure

We're on Azure and our users don't like having to renew their credentials every time they change their password. Is there no way to automate this securely? If their credentials aren't current, their scheduled jobs and reports won't run when they'r...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Read Only Access to Permissions and Capabilities Tabs

Users who can't access folders or reports due to security settings don't understand what the security settings are to know what access to request. They can't see the Permissions and Capabilities tabs of the objects.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

(solved) Be able to upload images to Cloud multitenant, so I could use them in PDF/Excel/Share With Email outputs

(solved) In Cloud mutitenant, the images I use in Report works with HTML only. It won't work in PDF/Excel/Share With Email outputs. It's because the rendering occurs inside the Report Server. The images have to be located inside the Report Server...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Mobile: Run reports functionality in Cognos Mobile app

Currently, we are unable to run any standard reports via Cognos Mobile app. Active reports can only be downloaded/imported into app.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Disable default IBM alerts

With Cognos Analytics 11.1.4 a new feature was presented: Alert messages. There are two types. After every login default IBM "What's new" banners apper and admins are able to enable own messages. There should be a configuration parameter or switch...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

KPI Visualization for Period over Period Comparison

The new KPI Visualization in 11.1.4 is fantastic! We often show period-over-period comparisons. For example YTD Revenue vs Prior YTD Revenue. It would be great to be able to apply different filters to the base and target values in the existing KPI...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Automatically reorder time categories on bar/column forecasts

The forecasting capability in Cognos 11.1.4 is awesome, and the fact that it automatically orders time categories chronologically rather than alphanumeric is doubly awesome. However it only does this in line charts, not bar/column charts.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

New forecasting functionality in R4 needs additional features

If you include a target on a line, column or bar chart the forecasting is turned off. It should draw a forecast line for the target just like it does to the #. So if target is a static number the forecast line would remain static, if the target is...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists