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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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Data Table - Complex Aggregation

We rely heavily on calculated percentages / rates that are embedded within our framework modeler packages, both relational and DMR. Many of these calculations require complex aggregation that entails the percentage / rate (such as return on sales ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Hyperlink items in dashboard

We often generate lists with detailed information in external systems. in a report we are able to make a list with hyperlink items. However, in a dashboard, such a hyperlink for a list is currently not available img1: hyperlink item in a report im...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Add Two or More of Same Table to Data Module

There are times when we need to add the same table more than once to a Data Module. For instance, we might have a fact table with order date and ship date. This would need two date dimensions to join on each date.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable using Cognos viewer in reports which use drill through in CA version 11.2.4.2

It is necessary to add the possibility of using Cognos viewer mode to open the target report when the source report opens in Cognos viewer when using drill trough. This functionality works fine until version 11.1.7.1. When you can use Cognos viewe...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Using ECDSA root for RSA certificaten

To secure Cognos analytics internally, an internal RSA certificate has been created. The root of our internal certificates are all ECDSA. We can not change this, because then all our certificates no longer work. It would be good if Cognos Analytic...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Donut Charts to run in PDF format

Most of our reporting for business users are in PDF format, since that is the preferred version for them. We have a new report request, where we are looking to add a semi-donut chart to the report for our Key Metric, but unfortunately Donut charts...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Planned for future release

KPI Visualization for Period over Period Comparison

The new KPI Visualization in 11.1.4 is fantastic! We often show period-over-period comparisons. For example YTD Revenue vs Prior YTD Revenue. It would be great to be able to apply different filters to the base and target values in the existing KPI...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Create report directly from dataset

Need the ability to create reports directly from a dataset without having to define the dataset within a data module.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to use the timezone set in the User Preferences

The functions AsOfTime() and AsOfDate() should take into account the time zone specified in "My preferences".The user has the possibility to define its time zone, so *any* date function should take this into consideration with an option to take cu...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Default delivery option to email with attachment

Default delivery option to email with an attachment - currently we need to click 10 times to run a report with email delivery options but instead, it's a good idea to have an email with attachments run options in my preferences to just email repor...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration