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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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KPI Distance precision

For the KPI widget, add a way to control the decimal places in the Target distance percentage. Currently only the Target value can be formatted. It is set with 2 decimal places. I want no decimal places.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Restrict Exploration from specific Packages

Provide the ability to restrict access to specific packages with the Exploration tool, as allowed with with tools, such as Report Studio. Not all packages may be designed for optimal use with Exploration. The users may need access to one package f...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Avoid message box when generating SQL/MDX

Avoid message box when generating SQL/MDX, every time clicking on the button is annoying. And our report developers generate SQL/MDX very often.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Automatically renew past/current activities

Renew past/current activities automatically or add a renew button
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Use Search and recent with rest API

Hi. The idee is to extend cognos to exteral interfaces with for funconality like adding "recent" into a SharePoint portal. This would be like an RSS feed. It should also be possible to use search from external portals.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to schedule a Workspace refresh

We need the ability to to schedule a Workspace refresh so that data is refreshed in the background and doesn't have to be manually refreshed by the user each time and have to watch it refresh on screen which can take time.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow tenant switch without the loss of my content

Setup=====We use a multi-tenant environment for different customers with the same database.There are some special customers (service provider), they have access for more than one tenant (but not for all).For this purpose we are using a customized ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Couchbase Data Source

Customer is now leveraging Couchbase for data that needs to be reported on.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update "Recent Cards" on homepage to browse by pathing rather than object ID.

A report is created for a large number of users to consume all through-out the day named Report Alpha. Developers later update Report Alpha without versioning the name of the report so that all email links and links within other user interfaces st...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

AI Assistant Languages

In Cognos Exploration currently only english language is supported, other languages including German, French and Dutch are also needed by our clients
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release