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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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Default current date for date field in report and job

There is no way to default "current date" for any Date parameters, this is really necessary in both reporting and scheduled jobs.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Logout Redirect

Would like to get logour re-direct capbilites working. We have tried to implement via system.xml as specified in the following url http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21650433 for version 10... but does not seem to work in 11
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add toolbox in Dashboard

The users wants to make the dashboard more interactive and controllable by controling the prompt Range dates and adding button with icons.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add unique user column to Cognos Audit database

The Cognos audit database only tracks a user the COGIPF_USERNAME. Having a field that is always unique and les likely to change such as an institution ID or email address would enhance audit reporting. It would also help avoid issues where users h...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide or disable built-in change and growth relative time members in Dynamic Cubes

Cube modeler can't affect to the behavior of built-in relative time members in Dynamic Cubes (Year to Date Change, Year to Date % Growth, QTD Change, QTD % Growth, MTD Change, etc.). Because those calculations are fixed they won't always show the ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Page or Dashboard Tabs as tooltips

Improves User Experience
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add User Name to XML File For External File Delivery

A Cognos User wants to utilize the external file delivery method in order to deliver reports to their OneDrive account. However, the accompanying XML file that is created along with the report output does not contain that user's name, and therefor...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support customized JDBC driver by Amazon

Amazon provides us a new JDBC driver to access AWS RDS Postgres DB, but it is not currently supported in Cognos Analytics (we are using version 11.2.4 FP2). A support case (TS014762359) has been submitted. Based suggestion from case support, we ar...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Own color palette for each KPI in diagrams

The customer wants a diagram in his report, where KPIS for different departments are shown. For each KPI the actual value is used with the target value in the same diagram. The actual value should use the normal color palette with all company colo...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add drill through functionality for standalone Adobe Reader DC (Pro) in Cognos Analytics

Currently PDF drill through capabilites are only available for Internet Explorer running the Adobe Reader Plugin. The functionality is also required for the standalone Reader Applications.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration