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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,


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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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Restore the Report Studio interface customization feature

It is no longer possible to configure the Report Studio interface based on user profile. This is very disturbing because many customers consider that the RS interface is too rich for the users and look for a functional perimeter close to Query Stu...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Select "Forward match" or "Pattern match" in the field of "Filter condition" in the Report screen

In the field of "Filter Condition" in the Report Screen, when we search the item by "Pattern match" we have to use "%" in front of "search word". Some users find it difficult to use"%" .This function was included in Cognos BI 10.2, but it is gone ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Challenges in Cognos schedules

Setting up of schedules or modification of schedules for reports in Cognos 11 are not user friendly as in previous versions. We are explicitly using classic view to setup the schedules as it is user friendly. If any user tries to modify the existi...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

To update the data module when there is a change in the metadata

Whenever there is change in underlying Database , we need to refresh the metadata in Cognos data server and also need to update each data module manually
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Ability to see licenses for admin users other than system admin

We Arte currently doing some work with one of our customer in the CA cloud instance. They are regularly adding new users, and we need to be able to easily keep check of how many users they are adding. I think it is important that in the portal, wh...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Crosstab Option to display "0" (ZERO) instead of "No Value" when the cell does not have value

The default behavior of Crosstab is to display "(no value)" for the cells without value. It would be nice to have option to display "0" ZERO instead.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Ability to turn off or lock the new feature of automatically creating table structures when dropping objects

The new feature in Cognos 11.1.1 of automatically creating table structures when dropping an object. This makes nesting data items into the end column/row of a crosstab or table very difficult. It also makes reporting writing unnecessarily difficu...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Add capability to remap a table in a data module to a new source

In framework manager, we have had the capability to remap a model query subject to a new source for years... it seems this isn't available/possible in data modules, yet would be a significant improvement to give the modeler this capability, like t...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Shortcut access from studios

Today its is posible to create a dashboard/report/datamodul when clicking on the breadcrumps to the right of the dataset/datamodule shortcut. But if you use new dashboard/report/datamodule you cannot see the shortcut !?
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Change default in Data Sets to turn off preview feature upon opening

In data sets today, the preview is always turned on by default when you open it. This should be turned off by default and only pull back data upon request
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered