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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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Detailed Error Capability should be at least part of the Analytics User License

The capability detailed error, is only part of the Administrator Licence und should be available for all Licences. It is technically possible to assign the capability to regular users, but not allowed due to licence restictions.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Make TM1 subsets in Cognos Analytics private , according to the user's security profil

The capability to use TM1 subsets in Cognos Analytics is really a highlight in R9. However those subsets a public meaning available to all users. In TM1 there are also private Subsets which are only available to specific users. We need the same ca...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Provide functionality to pass prompt values in parameterized URLs to Dashboards.

An external application uses Cognos Report URLs with Prompt parameters to open Cognos reports filtered with prompts values and want to have the same functionality available for Cognos Analytics Dashboards.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Common Customizable Header Above the Dashboard Tabs

At the moment within a dashboard we don't have an out of box option to add a common header on top of the tabs of the dashoard. We should have a common header or also ability to edit to add tab specific conents but the main thing is it should be ab...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Drillthrough component between Powerplay and Report Studio 64bit

Hello, we use Powerplay and drillthrough reports in Report Studio. We need to install a 32bit dispatcher that powerplay drillthrough function is working. The reason is the component of drillthrough definition which requires a 32 bit report service...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Reset dashboard to default settings.

Reset dashboard to default settings with e.g. a button. -reset filters in "explorer view" . (not filters done in edit mode) -reset drilldowns with the same button It must be easy for a user to reset a dashboard to default settings in an easy way. ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

11.1 Visualizations in report studio (bars) need custom sorting

11.1 visuals in report studio need custom sorting and/or TO MATCH DASHBOARDING functionality at the very least. Cannot sort by highest to lowest value. cannot sort by other columns in query
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Enabling Interactivity Across Multiple Containers in a Report

By enabling interactivity across these containers, actions taken in one container (like selecting a data point) can dynamically influence the content and display of another container on the same report canvas. When a user selects a data point or a...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support for Bit type from MS SQL Server

We use a Bit field as a boolean to indicate if a record is the current record for our customer. Currently, it is not supported and requires casting to another type.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Ability to Document Report within Report Studio

The ability to add text documentation to a report at different object levels and the ability to display it to the developer.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration