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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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Workspace Advanced - Context Filter limitations

User selects multiple items from tree and pulls in Context Filter. a. Now user wants to remove only one item from this context filter, there is no way to remove only one item and keep the remaining.b. User wants to temporarily turn on/off some of ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace Advanced - Please provide Rows,Columns,Context Bar similar to Analysis Studio

Analyis Studio provides an area where we can easily drop items to display on rows or columns. They also have handle which makes it super easy to move the items around to change nesting order or transpose from rows or columns.Workspace Advanced doe...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add new Visialization and ways to modify a visualization for Dashboards and Reports

Competetiros and even Excel can support semicircle visualizations. UPS got a Business requirement to implement that in one of our dashboards but unable to deliver
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add "Lock Page Objects" to Features in Accounts

Under Manage > People > Accounts in Cognos Analytics 11.0.x It is able to edit the visible features of the UI for different roles. "Lock" and "Unlock" are available for Reporting. In Cognos Analytics both menu options have been deleted and k...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatic Reset of workspace

Currently, workspace widgets need to be reset individually or collectively using reset widget utility. But, even after the collective reset using utility, subsequent changes in the reports need rerun of the reset utility.If there is an automatic r...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow customization of line thickness on 11.1 visuals

I had ticket open with support to verify that this currently doesn't exist but it would be nice to be able to make the lines on 11.1 Line charts in reports thicker. The default is too thin for some users and there is no way to customize this prope...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Data select and copy feature in Report Studio Active Reports Output

Hi, there is no way to select and copy the output data of an Active Report (MHT File) that is developed in Report Studio. So, a PMR has been raised for it and based on support suggestion, we intend to log this enhancement request as our customers ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Tables and report expression in the cells of the crosstab is embedded, and we want to use the elements of the intersection.

System: Cognos Business IntelligenceActor: Creating a report Description: We want to use the crosstab from the following two reasons.1. The iteration table, there is a problem that value from being displayed even all 0.2. The usability of crosstab...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance no data handling for cross tab

Crosstab cannot be hide totally according to empty result set returned from the query. The suppression feature can archive it with side effect that rows and columns have to be suppressed individually which is not desired.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration