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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,

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  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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Customize data labels on dashboard

We would like the ability to change the label of a data item that is displayed on the dashboard the way we can change the label in the report authoring environment. This will authors to create cleaner looking dashboards when using data items that ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Remove unsuccessful login entries labeled as "Not Available" from Cognos Analytics audit package

When we tried to find out the logon information using the audit package in Cognos Analytics then we noticed that the user name details are showing as 'not available' in the audit report. Detailed explanation: When the logging level for ContentMana...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Search not showing all matching entries

Quite annoyingly, on several clients' systems we discovered that the default Search engine is not always finding the correct matches. I've researched further into this, and this occurs specifically for clients on a different locale than English. A...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules - Support Stored procedures as for Framework Manager

Stored procedure calls as the Following : EXEC [dbo].[MY_STORED_PROCEDURE] Work partially in Chrome. Not labels for columns. And in IE11 it genrates errors. After creating an incident with IBM Support they tolds us that is not a case support but ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Cognos Connection - Search criteria (where and what)

We need to be able to refine the search criteria to only search certain fields (eg. name, or only description, etc) or folders (eg. production folders, not development folders).
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove all filters option for new dashboards in Cognos Analytics

Currently there is no way to remove all filters applied to a new dashboard or a regular Cognos report (without Javascript). Especially with the new dashboards using the data tray filtering, an end user can easily lose track of what filters have be...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Provide options for direct css manipulation in customisations

Since upgrading from V11.1.7 to V11.2.4 we have encountered an issue where icons rendered in an existing customisation (sidebar menu) are now appearing much smaller than they were prior to the upgrade. Our investigation suggests that this can be o...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules - generate minimized SQL

Reports and Dashboards that are based on data modules should always generate minimized/optimized SQL, also in cases where a filter is applied at the query subject in the data module, like below: Example: select * from table1 where unit = <sessi...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Send count(distinct ... for ...) to database when DB2_COUNT_DISTINCT_SCALAG (DB2 11.5.5) is active (Cognos 11.1.7)

We have thousands of complex reports with expressions like that: "count(distinct ... for ...)". Cognos (DQM) uses a workaround to push expressions like that to the database (row_number+count). This workaround works only in simple cases but not in ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Import/Export Data Module json specification in Data Module editor

For some use cases it would be beneficial to be able to import and export the Data Module specification not only via REST API but within the Data Module editor: professional modelers can generate their Data Module specifications in external tools,...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration