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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


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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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Cognos Analytics

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Prompting based on a filter in dashboard with TM1 Source or filtering based on measures.

The Dashboard needs to have prompting the same way reports has or at least filtering based on measure should be enabled. This would have a very significant impact on the usability of tm1 cubes with Cognos Analytics dashboards. There is need for th...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Infographics only working for summary not charts

Infographics only working for summary Visualization and not for charts such as Bar. When we drag any infographics on Summary value, it coverts it to icons according to values. But same doesn't happen when doing for other charts for comparison.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rename Auto-Generated Relative Time Members (Cube Designer)

Within Cube Designer, the ability to rename the auto-generated relative time members would be useful, for example to change the label of "Year to Date" to "Current Year To Date", or "CYTD".
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Scheduled Job Step Report Location

When clicking on a scheduled job > properties, you get to the job steps. You can edit the prompts and schedule information here. In the classic view, you could also see the URL for the report that was being scheduled, in the new view you can no...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to delete users from Manage > Accounts > search results

Currently deleting users from BlueID namespace can be accomplished by navigating to Manage > Accounts > blueID and scrolling through the list of users to find the one to delete. Then the Directory Administrator needs to click the ellipsis be...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Multi-line Labels on Map Visualisation

Thanks for the Map Visualisation.Instead of the label for the map points being compressed into a single line, I would like to be able to produce the map labels in the form of an address, which each component of the address on a separate line, so i...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy&Paste of reporting elements: Possibility to select whether references should be copied as well or not

When copying elements (lists, cross tabs, queries) all references will be copied as well and when a query exists already a new one is inserted with a number added (1, 2, 3). This is not always suitable, and the user should have the possibility to ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add the Go Sale dimensional sample model to the on demand version

Hello,As dimensional modelling and development is an important part of Cognos Analytics, I don't understand why there is no dimensional sample model on the on demand version. This would help people to understand, test and train on the dimensionnal...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Excel .xlsb Output Format

Please add the Microsoft Excel .xlsb binary file output format as an export option in Excel. The current file output formats do not reduce the file size enough or strips all formatting.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Anywhere search is offered

We've had issues with an unreliable indexing update process resulting in a dysfunctional search. As a result, it's made us realize many of the new features (data modules and other) have a complete dependency on the search to select objects (upload...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration