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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,

  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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Folder in Dynamic Cube dimensions

When modeling Dynamic Cubes with Cognos Cube Designer, it would be very usefull to group Dimensions assigned to Cubes into Folders.As a reference, we would need the same way available in "Measure modeling", where we can group measures into "measur...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expose capability/customization for report delivery options

We would invite to have an option to hide/show per user role/group delivery options when running in background, so that we have option to deactivate local save or deactivate send via email if we need to plus option to change the default selection ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Bring back option to change object owner

In Cognos 10, to change the owner of an object there was a link underneath the owner name in the report properties that would allow you to take ownership of a report. This option seems to have gone away and there now appears to be no way to change...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Freeze Title Row

We have implemented JavaScript to freeze the top row of lists based on this tech article: http://www.ibm. com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/reporting/advanced_report_design/page622.html. Everything works as expected when viewing the active re...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to switch between portal pages in Cognos Analytics

We have CA 11.1.7 FP2 installed on our environment and are trying to configure portal pages based on roles in Cognos, as follows: Log in with System Administrator account, go to: Manage -> People -> Accounts -> Cognos -> select rol...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PDF output of D3 SVG diagrams

As you know, this library inserts a vector graphic element into the page. And we faced problem when making an output of the report to PDF. We expected that the default PDF output functionality is not limited for d3 visualisations. So if IBM presen...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Module Export/Import - Distribution

We need the ability to distribute a data module to our client base where the database name it references may change from what we have developed the data module against. This will most likely happen in a multitenant, cloud environment, but could ha...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Tabbed report does not support page breaks by section

When I create a sectioned report and set page breaks by section on a tabbed report the run report fails. The indication is that a tabbed report does not support page breaks by group. Since portals were taken away we are using tabbed reports to sup...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Subset Data Module functionality (create w/only uploaded files, for ex)

Provide ability to create data module with EXCEL data source ONLY to Business Authors.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Advanced Macro funcionality (Regex)

Cognos Analytics already supports a bunch of string-editing functions which allows pruning or modifying string elements. However, the availability of regular expression editing in macros would allow an even more accurate handling of string data an...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration