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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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174 VOTE

Zero/Null Suppression to Dashboard Widgets

Please add zero / null suppression option to Cognos Analytics Dashboards similar to Reports context menu option.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered
170 VOTE

Conditional Formatting on Dashboard Visualizations

Using Dashboards in Cognos Analytics, enable the capability to apply conditional formatting to dashboard visualizations (charts, summaries, and other visualizations, not just grids).
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Delivered
157 VOTE

Create Read-Only Dashboard Security Option

Have the ability to give consumers read-only access to dashboards. So: view and run, interact with existing prompts, but NOT create or edit.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered
142 VOTE

Multi Select Option for PAW

The current dimension element selector only allow users to select a single element from a dimension but no option to select multiple elements and see aggregated data on the fly. The MDX based calculation(Summerized) option is not as intuitive as a...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Delivered
141 VOTE

Cognos Analytics Home Page should accept User Favorite Reports and not only Recent Reports

Have the ability to switch between Recent Report and Users Favorite Reports on Cognos Analytics Home Page Portal
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Delivered
151 VOTE

Enable numbers to be displayed on graphs (bar, column, line, point , stacked bar, stack column)

Currently numbers are only displayed on bubble charts or slices on the pie chart. This functionality should be extended to add numbers to bar, column, line, point , stacked bar, stack column charts This enhancement needs the option to abbreviate t...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Delivered
144 VOTE

More than one Data Module to be included in one report

Can't use more than one Data Module in a report
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

TLS 1.3 Support

Hi QMF Team!TLS 1.3 Support is being a key to increase more and more Security. According to IBM CISO at January of 2024 will be a requirement. Reference: https://pages.github.ibm.com/ciso-psg/main/supplemental/acceptable_encryption.html#TLSVersion...
over 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Delivered

Db2Z INSERT with VALUES should allow multiple rows

Db2 LUW and many other RDMS allow one INSERT with VALUES to insert multiple rows at once. Db2 Z does not allow that syntax. Db2 Z INSERT with VALUES only allows one row at a time So if you have multiple rows you want to insert with the INSERT usin...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered
141 VOTE

Copy (Ctrl + C) single values/cells from a report that's run with full interactivity

Simply copying single values/cells from a report that's run with full interactivity is not possible, neither with CTRL + C, nor with right mouse -> Copy. Exporting the full report to Excel is not an option, as task takes much longer and only si...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered