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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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Search for function in report data item expression editor

Funtions from the Funtions tab are used very often in the report data item expression editor. But sometimes you don't know the precise name or which are available for your data source by heart. So a simple search by name (and description/Tips) wou...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to hide a column in the Dashboard tables

To be able to sort a table by a column which is not visible. This is sometimes required by users eg. when there is need to have table sorted by a specific column but its values are not wanted to be shown for various reasons (they want to have as s...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Cognos Analytics encrypts the Excel report

For the existing Cognos Analytics, can export Excel report. However, it cannot be encrypted. Is there any roadmap for supporting Excel encrypted?
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Customize data labels on dashboard

We would like the ability to change the label of a data item that is displayed on the dashboard the way we can change the label in the report authoring environment. This will authors to create cleaner looking dashboards when using data items that ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Add Comboboxes as new prompting control

This is a request of a new Prompting control which is a combination of the existing text box prompt (type-in), value prompt (drop down) and search & select prompt. The user should be able to select a value within the text box. A source / stati...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Multlingual labels for data items.

Our clients are multilingual and we would like the ability to support multiple languages in a data module to leverage its many advantages over framework packages.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1

Framework to data modules convertion

Have a tool to convert Framework Manager models (model.xml) to data modules whenever possible. Our target: Avoid having to rewrite data modules from scratch when FM models already exist
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Make Watson Analytics for Social Media data available in Cognos Analytics

It would be great to be able to use the Social Media data currently available in Watson Analytics for Social Media, as a data source in Cognos Analytics.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Import SQL COMMENT ON in data modules

Increasing size and complexity of data sources increase the demand for easy-to-handle metadata information. Descriptions directly implemented in source database objects are also useful for data modelers and report & dashboard authors. SQL COMM...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Include interactive report runs in Past Activities Cognos Administration list

In Cognos Administration, the Past Activities list currently only shows previous report runs run in the background, while the Current Activities list has the option to show either Background activities or Interactive activities. As an administrato...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration