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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,


Post your ideas

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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Enable use of waterfall visualisation in Cognos Analytics Dashboard mode

Enable Waterfall visualisation as one of the visualisations types to use within Dashboard mode. Note: This query was initially added as a question on IBM analytics community, and further recommended to add as a RFE.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Export data from Dashboard Visualization data area

Being able to see the data used to generate a visualization in the Visualization Data area is nice. However, when debugging a visualization it would be nice to export that data to Excel to examine the data more easily.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Setting permissions in Cognos Analytics with matrix like in Cognos 10

When setting permissions in Cognos Anlytics (e.g. on folders), the interface is not very userfriendly:- permissions can't be set for more than one group, if no standard permission (i.e. read, write) is used- permissions are not displayed at a glan...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Ability to add String values in color field on RAVE2 Maps issue in Cognos Analytics 11.0.10 (TS001153285)

In Cognos Analytics 11.0.10 Report Studio RAVE 2 Maps , we have a requirement to locate geographical data on a map and to identify them by different size and categories. We understand that Cognos 11 (RAVE Tiled Map) has the capability to support t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

DISABLE DEFAULT REPORT AUTHORING TEMPLATES

We use Cognos in such a way that we need to restrict users from creating Active Reports. When you create a New Report, the first screen that displays prompts you to choose a template: Blank report or blank active report. There is no way to disable...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Missing prompt-functions in report using a data module

As stated in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.1.0?topic=dmfm-framework-manager-features-not-supported-by-data-modules, some reporting functions are not supported with a data module as source for a report. The "Select & search pr...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 3 Delivered

Cognos default to 20 rows per page, increase the row default

Need to be able to apply a global increase, and not repetitive individual changes (Cognos Connection, Reports, Views, etc.)
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Disable onDemand Toolbar in interactive viewer

Would like to use the new Cognos Analytics 11 interactive viewer, but with the ability to disable onDemand Toolbar in the viewer at the report level.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Exporting to Excel

TS000999099I am in the need of exporting the rendered dashboard to excel
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

No summary on calculated fields (for Dashboards)

When we are using dashboards, we are not capable to summarize any calculated fields. (11.0.7)
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered