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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:


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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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Selecting a member in a hierarchy on a filter in a dashboard should select all members rolling up to it

I have a dashboard created on a planning analytics (TM1) data source. I add a hierarchy from a dimension in the data source to the filter pane. This is a 3-level hierarchy. I open the levels below the top level (i.e., Level1 based upon planning an...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Split Labels and (Surrogate) keys in Data Modules

In Framework Manager it is currently possible to split Labels and Keys. Meaning, an end user will see the label of a field (eg. The Netherlands) and in the backend, Cognos will filter on the attached key (eg. 12345). The advantage of this is that,...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Formatting Calculated members in dynamic cubes

Dynamic cube allows to create calculated members. However , there is no way to format the calculation at model level. For example, end users generally want to see % sign for percent calculations in the report output. Having the ability to format c...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When creating a report without using a package, an error is thrown when using SQL Queries

When creating a report without using a package, an error is thrown when the SQL Queries component is used. One must add at least one package in a report in order to use the SQL item in a report. No package is needed when using SQL Queries, so leav...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select leaf level elements in hierarchy when creating datasets from dimensional data

Hi, we would invite to have more options when selecting the hierarchical elements for data sets for dimensional data sources like TM1/PA. Today we can even select member of member+children which is not enough detailed to create correct dataset. We...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add TM1/PA subset editor as prompt object in CA11

We would like to have as improvement in integration between CA11 and TM1/PA the Planning Analytics subset editor as prompt object in reports/dashboards same way as you expose treepromts in reports. That is something our users are asking for as it ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change location of templates folder

The 'Templates' folder must be located at the root level of Team Content in order for templates to function properly. However I often design folder structures where the root level folders have dedicated purposes based on user personas. Being able ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Default File Name for PDF

While saving a PDF file, the default name is not appearing same as report name, where as all the other options has got that functionality.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompt Page: Add a Checkbox prompt

We have some reports where we are asking users if they want to include some items or not and have to use a value prompt with the values Yes and No. For example, if we provide a report on days, we would ask if they want only the working days with a...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Variable Text on Visualization Titles When Filtered

When two or more widgets are linked in a dashboard, it would be great if the titles on the widgets/visualizations changed with whatever is being filtered. We've found that the only way to achieve anything like this currently is to use something li...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration