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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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Peak / Non-Peak periods to be defined in hh:mm

As an administrator in cognos administration add option to define peak and non/peak periods in server (services) properties not only in hours but also in minutes like hh:mm. Hours only is a basic limitation for this functionality.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Confidentiality setting tag to Excel outputs

More and more clients are enabling and using the Confidentiality settings in Excel. This means that any Excel file opened in their environment, that does not have yet a Confidentiality setting (Public - Restricted - Confidential - Highly Confident...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Conditional data formatting in data modules and dashboards

It is a common requirement to display a Crosstab given a set of PnL accounts such as "Revenue, Bill of Materials, and Bill of Materials as a % of Revenue." There is currently no way in Data Modules or Dashboards to conditionally format a values da...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Be able to have relative default date selection on filters

When a date filter is added it is not possible to have a default data selection. This could for example be the last 90 days.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

XML as a datasource in 64bit

I am trying to use XML as a source for one our reports. When we moved from Cognos 10.x to 11.0.5, we get rid of all 32 bit dispatchers and made everything as 64bit only. How when I try to use the XML source, it fails since it can only work in Comp...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard drill-through from hierarchy

We still have PowerCubes and would like to reuse them with dashboards. We have confirmed with support that it's not possible to drill through from a sub-level in a hierarchy in a dashboard. Previously, when we were using Analysis Studio, we set up...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to create folders to organize queries in reporting

The query screen in Report Studio/Report Authoring can get difficult to manage and understand in complex multi-query reports. Having some organizational features, like the ability to create folders to contain related queries, would make this signi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improvement for Drillthroughs from dashbords - passing business key

Currently, only the represented data elements are passed in a drillthough. This is usually the label (caption), which is inadequate for filtering in a drill target. A solution could be, to be able to assign an attribute to each of the displayed da...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Stored procedure in datamodule

Make db stored procedure available in datamodules and visible for the users to use and tooltip.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add frameworkmanager package and datamodule as source in report authoring

Add frameworkmanager package and datamodule as source in report authoring. When you have a frameworkmanager package in Report Authoring, you not able to add a datamodule. We want this functionality to replace external datasource.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration