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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,


Post your ideas

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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Vertical fit to one page

Hello, In report studio, there is an option to avoid horizontal pagination.We would like to have the same option for vertical pagination.This would force the report to fit to one page (reducing automatically table's width).Thank you in advance
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Multiple Data Elelements on a Vizualization Mouse Over

I have a combination chart. I am displaying the Qty of changes per month. I would also like to show the percentage and some other data elements that would describe the item being reported.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

No popups, in the Cognos mobile app on iPad, in drill-throughs with a single definition

Currently in the version of Cognos Analytic Mobile (Version 11.0.0.7 Build 11.0.0.8.8) during a drill-through with a single definition a popup is displayed to then select the only definition of drill and make it. This choice can, however, be misle...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to show blank or custom string instead of #!Security in studios when accessing a secured Transformer cube

If a Transformer cube has custom views, and if some users are part of several custom views, there may be situations where users have rights to see some categories from some dimensions, but not the data at the intersection. In such a case, Analysis...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a function to determine if we are in the last row of a list or a crosstab

Ability to determine with a report function if we are in the last row of a list or a crosstab in order to apply specific layout (color coding).
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extract Data signon UserName from Data source connections

We want to get the user id that Cognos uses to connect to the reporting Database. I am able to get the credentials from the data source sign on (doing a search on dataSourceSignon) However it is in encrypted form. This is important for management ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to use Horizontal Page Count in Conditionnal Style

We would like to have the possibility to use the Horizontal Page Count function in conditionnal style.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to expand a tree prompt element even if some elements are breaking hierarchy order

When a user has acces to the total of the hierarchy then doesn't have acces to the next level but has acces to the following level, elements from this level are not accessible from the tree prompt with rootMembers. As the total hierarchy display n...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Transformer Data Source Signon loops when it should provide a detailed error message

Viewing the data in Transformer or attempting to build a PowerCube causes the Data Source Signon page to be displayed. User enters credentials and clicks OK. The signon dialog is displayed again and this loop continues. Requested Change.An error s...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Consumer-Root in Public Folder wthin Cognos-Office

On BI-Server there is a feature to restrict content browsing for Users in Public Folder: System.xml ...In Cognos-Office this feature is not aktice. User are able to browse the entire contents of Public Folder. This feature should be implemented in...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration