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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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Dynamically Change Dashboard Metrics

Would love the ability to have a way to dynamically change the displayed metrics on dashboard charts using a drop down or list. This way a user could have a list of sale 4 main metrics and be able to change the dashboard on the fly by selecting a ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Event Studio: Allow copy/paste of Data items between Event Studio (Like report studio)

enable copy and paste data item objects.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to control package based routing options in deployment process

Assuming package based routing is set in a production environment. The routing properties will be overwritten and are unset after importing a deployment file that was created in an environment without packaged based routing. The requested function...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Non-Dismissible Banner on top of every CA Screen

A common customer requirement is to display a non-dismissible bar or banner at the top of every screen in the Cognos UI (not just report pages) which contains various corporate information, classification information, or other text and/or images (...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

stop use of LONG RAW data type in Oracle content store

For many years now Oracle has been recommending that LOB data types should be used instead of LONG. LONG RAW is used NC_JOBQUEUE.JOB. Use of LONG RAW complicates database administration, for example relocation and space management. http://docs.ora...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Connectivity from one server to other server in shared environment for Cognos tasks

If there is any functionality available in Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 by which we can connect to multiple servers from one server under one shared environment. For example, if I have a shared environment with 4 servers (A, B , C and D) can I login to...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Visualization mouseover/drillthrough support of recursive parent child treemap (starburst, icicle, etc) internal nodes

Add support for mouseover tooltips and drillthrough functionality on internal nodes of recursive parent child treemap Cognos Visualization charts (such as starburst, icicle, etc) as is already working on the leaf nodes of same charts. Not having t...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Processes List of Cognos BI on Linux Platform

Need to have the Processes List of Cognos Business Intelligence when starting Cognos Service on Linux platform, and the detail function description of each process. Need to have the Official Documentation from IBM Cognos DEV Team.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customize Report Viewing Formats per Report (Excel Options)

Our company uses Cognos BI reporting for business reporting. Some of our reports contain more than 1 query. This causes the viewing option, Excel 2007 Data, to fail. Since the option to view the report in Excel 2007 Data format is available and us...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Report Studio - XML specification modifcation

Report specification can not be modified in the report. I have to copy to clipboard, modify the XML outside of Cognos and then open from the clipboard. However, new object is created with new IDs and so on.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration