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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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progresive chart available in dashboard

our dashboard created in report studio and workspace contains progressive charts to visualize the bridge between budget and actual. To role out self service BI the dashboard application should contain progressive charts.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Flexible management of restricting user’s rights

For instance if some employee is on vacation, and according internal rules I have to restrict user’s rights to Cognos now it is not so easy if it is possible at all.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add another permission set which encompasses Execute/Traverse only

Pre-defined permissions sets in the list are not customizable in Cognos Analytics 11.1.1 (version 11 onward). Need a new one which provides Execute and Traverse only. Please see the ticket: TS001873295 for details.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Folder Level Capabilities

While capabilities are attached to studio and package, capabilities really need to apply to any object within the Cognos environment. The case in point, when trying to give Report Studio capabilities to user, assigning the capabilities at the pack...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to skip expand validation parameters in Cognos 11 silent/unattended installation as supported in UI mode.

We bundle Cognos 11 with our Product called Windchill. Cognos get installed in silent/unattended mode. Cognos 11 support distributed installation using Expand install option. On Expand install screen if we do not specify or enter invalid informati...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

ENH: Cognos install kits to include installation option with user defined backup location

This is an enhancement for future Cognos products install kits to have an installation option with user defined backup location. Installer kit in 10.2.x versions does not give users an option to define their own backup folder location during insta...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Changing the sources of existing tabs in Cognos Dashboard.

When any changes are done to the packages and created a new version of it but the visualizations of the dashboard will be of old version of package.It is difficult to change the objects of all the visualizations to the new one.So,is it possible to...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

ENH : Prompt : Add a select all option in tree prompts

When we want to display all elements of a hierarchy from a tree prompt we have to click them one by one which is very time consuming and generates a lot of clicks. We would like the possibility to select all displayed elements. It is closed to the...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Change prompt button color for Report Studio.

Would like the ability to change the prompt button color for Report Studio using GlobalReportStyles.css. Statement from APAR PM83716: The GlobalReportStyles.css applies styles for when running Reports. Report Studio uses Design Model which is not ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists