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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:


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,


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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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Delete vs Write vs Full

Within the permissions of an object, we now have a hierarchy of security -- Read, Run, Write and Full. In previous versions, we had 5 permissions - Read, Execute, Traverse, Write and Policy (still kind of have this in the admin piece) but... In al...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Handling Refresh tokens(Schedule strategy) for Azure AD generic namespace.

In OIDC Generic security namespace , there is an option to use Refresh tokens as a scheduling strategy instead of using the password flow. When this approach is used , refresh tokens will be used for getting an access token when the schedule runs/...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard: Coloring values based on a condition

In Dashboards i would like the ability to color values based on a condition. Eg. [Margin]<0.80=Red , 0.81<[Margin]<1 = Yellow , [Margin]>1 = Green. Maybe the feature: Conditional formatiing in Report Studio could be used somehow. This ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search for Query Items / Subjects in Report Studio

Currently, there is not a way to search packages added to a report in report studio as there is in the dashboard designer. (Here is an image with that https://goo.gl/TQv4qm ) We would like to see this ability added to report studio.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export Advanced Settings from new Admin UI

Currently when implementing advanced settings in the new Admin UI, it’s not possible to export them into the Full Content Store archive as we can already did when the following advanced parameter CM.DEPLOYMENTINCLUDECONFIGURATION is set in source ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Enhancements to Event Agent (aka Studio)

Hi, I have these enhancements points for Event Studio which is now called Event Agent. Points to enhance Event Agent: Ability to assign task name to something different than the inherited name. Ability to see all the selected prompt values without...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Ability to link (global) parameters default value, to a query

Add the capabilities to link the default value of Global Parameters with a query/report, so that there'll be no need to change them once a week or event monthly.In the same way, also the default value of normal parameters (prompt) could be fill au...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Sorting schedules by name in Cognos Administration Portal

High need to sort schedules in the Administration portal by name and an easy way to search for a schedule
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module Query Icons to show column dependancy

Within Data Modules there is no visual indicator that a Query has column dependency set. In order to find out if column dependency is set on queries you need to click on every query and look at column dependency sheet. If a query has a filter on i...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Embed Python, R or Spark code in Cognos Analytics

We would like the ability to embed Python, R or Spark code within Cognos Analytics. Not sure on where to put it, but I think the best place is likely embedded in a data module, to allow for reuse on multiple reports and dashboards.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration