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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:


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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,

  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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Be able to change ‘FROM’ field, when emailing a reprot, be able to type in an AD group.

This way the report would show coming from the area that needs to be contacted if issues or questions. Right now we schedule using the Cognos credentials and so any correspondence is currently sent back to the Cognos Administrator and not the depa...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add an option to open dashboard in edit mode directly

To edit dashboard you have to open it and then click "Edit or preview". Many beginners do not know that and they ask us and they spend our time. They also say that they do not have permissions to edit dashboards but in fact they have. Because firs...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable to display “Missing value characters”-Measure-Formatting in Crosstabs, which was set in the Framework Manager and is used in the Dynamic Query Mode

Without such feature users have to set such formatting in every Crosstab-Report for every measure manually. Moreover this functionality for the Crosstabs is supported in the Compatible Query Mode, but it was not extended to the Dynamic Query Mode.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Is a defect

Filtering Linked Tables in Data Modules without breaking the link

Master Data Modules are shared globally in our Cognos Analytics environment to allow users to link to their own data modules containing their fact data. This allows the business community to easily reap the benefits of dimensional data (navigation...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need an ability to set our own color to a specific value in treemap color by value visualization

currently the Tree map color by value visualization will represent the colors based on values in the map. but if we want specify a particular color to a specific value for example "white" color "zero 0" value there is no way.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add same table multiple times as role playing dimensions in data module

In the data modelling component, it should be possible to add the same table in multiple times to be able to create a datamart with roleplaying dimensions.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of Connector option in Dashboard Module

Currently the connection option allows either connect or disconnect the dashboard elements to each other. It should also offer to make connection more flexible so that an element can be set on partial interactivity on a dashboard. Please read the ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add .Jpeg/.png widget

There is a need for end users to have the ability to add a picture of their choice to Cognos Analytics dashboards. The current methods are restricted to: -url photo location -Custom gallery generated by an administrator Neither of these two opti...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Viewer: Add right menu option to sort crosstab table ascending or descending on particular column

When report is executed and displayed in Cognos Viewer add right menu option on columns to "Sort ascending" and "Sort descending" option on column. When action performed crosstab should be sorted according to selected one column sort option. P.S. ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules Relinking View To New View With Different Name

Currently we have test environment and production environment for both the database and Cognos , Views that are being created on test database have a different name than the ones on production . Users are creating data modules on test server using...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration