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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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REST API: Datasources

/api/v1/datasources currently returns only the items shown in the main (Glass? Carbon?) UI under Manage | Data Server Connections. This is a relatively new feature. Most of my data sources are in Administration Console... | Configuration | Data So...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Reset License Counter or Show Active Licenses

Currently, the License Counter is useless, as it does not show the current License needs, only shows historically the highest level each user ever has been granted.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos SQL generation control in Server Setting

Many reports / packages have been developed and deployed by users.It takes time and cost to implement SQL correction for each report package.There is a need for a method that responds with restrictions on the entire system.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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 ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display existing Advanced Settings in Manage > Configuration > System fly-out panel

I have used the Advanced Settings in Manage > Configuration > System fly-out panel to set the value for "Portal.updateTargetObjectWhenOverwrite". However, to view the current setting I need to navigate directly to the underlying "configurati...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Add nesting/grouping x-axis values for Visualizations like Legacy charts

Nesting/grouping x-axis values option is available in Legacy charts. It would be very helpful to have the same functionality for visualizations.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Capabilities tab to Data module's Properties like FM package has

We want to control which group has access to specific capabilities on a data module.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add option to capture and reuse (save) the filter selections in dashboards

Hello, we have built dashboards for users so that they can execute them (not a self service authoring of dashbaords but managed dashbaords. The users execute these dashboards and first need to select data perimeter in the filter area in the top wh...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dynamic cube relative date/time

Possibilty to select which of the automatic created relative date periode members that should be included In the dynamic cubes, as it is now. its all or none of the members.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module Use SQL With Clause

Data Module configuration does not include any option for "Use SQL with clause" (amongst others) similar to that seen in Framework Packages
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration