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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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Dynamic (Relative) Default Value for Date Prompt

The date prompt is used in many financial reports, Including quite a few that have specific relative dates (actuals for yesterday, actuals for last month). The date prompts should be able to set dynamic default values (current_date - 1), however, ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to set "Contains" as the default search option in Select and Search prompt

By default, the Select and Search prompt uses "Start with any of these keywords" as the default search option. This search option does not provide an optimal user experience. On most cases, the users usually remember only part of the string they a...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Fix smooth line property for 11.1 visualizations

I would really like to use the smooth line visualization and/or property offered in 11.1 visualizations, but the way the lines are drawn sometimes just don't make sense. I've attached an example of consecutive points being plotted on a time series...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Make hoover colors changeable when customizing theme

We want to change colors when hoover over buttons in Cognos Analytics: * background-color * foreground-color (= text color) * selectLine And we want to change colors for active buttons (when user has clicked on a button): * background-colo...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dashboard - ability to ADD a filter that the user cannot change

Assume I have a Bar Chart that includes a YEAR filter for 2 years of Data. At run time a User can Delete that FILTER and change what I want as permanent FILTER for that WIDGET.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Customize data labels on dashboard

We would like the ability to change the label of a data item that is displayed on the dashboard the way we can change the label in the report authoring environment. This will authors to create cleaner looking dashboards when using data items that ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Ability to convert a Framework Manager model to a Data Module

Since IBM is not longer planning updates/improvements to Framework Manager and instead focusing on Data Modules, users should have a way to convert a Framework Manager model to a Data Module. Ideally this would be functionality offered by IBM and ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Data Modules - Support Stored procedures as for Framework Manager

Stored procedure calls as the Following : EXEC [dbo].[MY_STORED_PROCEDURE] Work partially in Chrome. Not labels for columns. And in IE11 it genrates errors. After creating an incident with IBM Support they tolds us that is not a case support b...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Hover Text on Dashboard

Dashboard needs to be clean and have short titles due to real estate being valuable on the page. If the hover text function could have a full title and definition of terms for specific visualizations / metrics then we can keep the clean look and f...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release

Add support for treeprompt into dashboards (for dimensional data sources)

Hello, we are missing the support for tree prompt selection for elements in dashboard when using dimensional data. Today when we drag hierarchy we see list of root elements which is not expected behavior. Users need to see and browse the dimensi...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release