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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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Make auditing Dashboard usage more straight forward

Currently, when looking at the audit logs around dashboard usage, a single run of a dashboard will show up multiple times, once for every widget on the page. There is no way to determine how often a dashboard is run without getting extremely infla...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set Dynamic Axis range for visualizations in 11.1.X

Right now we can't dynamically change the axis range in 11.1.1. Can this feature be added.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

UNABLE TO SET EXTERNAL DATA FILE TO AUTOMATICALLY LOAD

PH30480 UNABLE TO SET EXTERNAL DATA FILE TO AUTOMATICALLY LOAD
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Donut Charts an option for central text/value

Donut version of a PIE chart by definition have an available area within the circle , and this is OFTEN utilised by displaying a value (Total or avg or something). This is done manually by overlaying a dashboard element. Providing this as an intri...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

add macro or function to query calc

Macro's and Functions do not appear in the expression editor.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Post inMemory Trigger Name for Virtual Cubes

Add the Post In Memory Trigger Name to Virtual Cubes.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Column headers in crosstabs

Add column headers to crosstabs. By default there are no headers for dimensions. The lack of headers is especially difficult for users who export to Excel.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Object oriented building of report and visualization

Commonly, a report Object can be reused at creation within a new report. Nevertheless, it is just an inclusion with no link with the original piece of report.What is needed is to change this behaviour to an object oriented behaviour .Example : Rep...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sort members of Groups and Roles

I would like to be able to sort members within Groups and Roles. It is not easy to identify who is in a group or role, when names are in the order entered and not alphabetical.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Interactive Report within Portal Viewer

Would like the Interactive options inherent with Cognos ANalytics (like dynamic client side sorting and filtering) to be available through the Portal Viewers. I opened a helpdesk on it, and was told this was because they are two reporting interfac...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration