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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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All/This tabs filter - ability to exclude values from a filter

Would like to the ability to exclude values from an all/this tab filters. I.e we show account types, if we want to show just expense account type, we either have to add the filter to the canvas instead of as a filter or go through. The Account typ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add mouseover tooltips to lists in reports

I need the ability in Cognos 11 to add mouseover tool tips for items in a list. This is needed to show the definition of the metric in question.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bursted report output versions not sorted by burst key and not sortable

The report output versions of bursted output appear to be in no particular order. in Cognos 10.2.2 they were sorted by burst key. We need to have them sorted by burst key.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard View like Reportviews

Our users are moving the Dashboards to my content with there name selected for filter, but if we do any changes to main Dashboard under Team content they are not getting those updates to My Content, looking for having similar concept as Report vie...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filtering view based on element attributes

Users often have to slice and dice data in views and visualizations for analysis and data input. Today you either have to open the set editor to filter elements, use a selector widget or place the dimension on the canvas for easy selection of spec...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle DB name change with CDC Target

We would like to have a means to change the Oracle Database name for existing subscriptions within Infosphere Change Data Capture. When our Oracle database migrated to the Exadata environment, the database name changed which required dropping and ...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Compress Reports when sent by email

Cognos should be able to compress reports if they are requested by users to be sent via email. Now Cognos creates XLS, CSV, XML etc. files based on the user's wish and attaches them to an email. These attachments should be able to be compressed (z...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Real time statistics (RTS) should include information about index traversal count

Application DBA's and developers use performance metrics, acess paths, object definitions and Real Time Statistics (RTS) when analyzing application perfomance. Information about FTB should be syncronized with other information about the index and ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Abilitity to resize a visualization in RA like in Dashboards

Abilitity to resize a visualization in RA like in Dashboards
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ability to show what users are logged into Cognos analytics

when doing maintenance, you do not know who is in the system, so you might drop them as you restart the CM or dispatcher.. it would be nice to be able to see who is logged in...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration