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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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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 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...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Data Module Navigation Paths can't be applied in a common data module and pulled into another data module

If you have a data module with common tables in it, i.e. date and locations. The folders, sorting and calculations do get pulled forward. If you want a navigation path it must be added into the data module you are adding the common data module to
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create Audit data module together with Audit sample reports in the same way as exist for the Audit package.

In our self service environment we do not have framework manager installed. We need to connect some user access tables to the audit model. We could create an Audit data module our selves but then if IBM does any changes to the audit model () we ha...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

re-aasign new package to report from properties

Re-point a report to an alternative package from the properties dialogue
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Enhance Data Table with interactive features of List (i.e. sort by column)

We would like to use the new data table, that is available since 11.1.6 in our reports. But we are missing the interactive features, that are available for the Lists in reports. Especially the function to sort by any column is often used and needed.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

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,...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

Global change option for the Search and Select prompt

The Deltek client, FHI360, is asking for the following enhancement, "We ask for a global change option in the Select and Search prompt where the default selection should be, “Contains any of these keywords” instead of “Starts with any of the...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy or export from dashboards

Requesting additional features for dashboards. Users are not able to export data or copy data from the dashboard page.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to define Cognos Visualization colors based on data field i.e. Green for on progress, red for delayed

Ability to define Cognos Visualization colors based on value in the field i.e. Green color for on progress, red for delayed and others
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable the ability to upload Custom Style Sheets(CSS) and other CSS

Enable the ability to upload Custom Style Sheets(CSS) and other CSS to match functionality in on prem version of Cognos
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted