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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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Cognos Analytics support R-Studio data files: *.rdata, *.rda

The people with strong skill level of R-Studio are in the clients. They use R to prepare data and display the result with charts. Now they are searching for some great BI tool to show up the analysis result, but they still can use R to prepare data.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Scheduling With Select and Search Prompt

The Select and Search, in the Report Viewer, prompt displays differently when Interactivity turned on or off. The display is not consistent when creating schedules and selecting prompt settings. When interactivity is off(No) the legacy S&S Pro...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Provide an ability to idenitfy request from 'Cognos for Microsoft Office'

With the currently functionality of the product, the requests from Cognos for Microsoft office can be same as the requests from other applications to the server as far as I know. There is no known method to identify Cognos for Microsoft office req...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Reset Dashboard - remove colour consistency, orphaned drill throughs, navigation path etc

Developers have accidentally released dashboards with drill down filters applied. Developers are seeing duplicate data item names in drill thru definitions.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

inherit navigaton path from underlying datamodule

We are modelling in different levels. The first level is a technical layer in which we model the technical to the business terms. There will be one datamodule per fact and dimension. In the next level we are modelling for instance a staar schema w...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

In Portal, share a folder not using a custom perpective

When using the share option for a folder in the Portal, the link generated display the wrong perspective (?perspective=home). We created a «MyHomepage» for our company (?perspective=MyHomepage). Can we change this behavior by using the custom pe...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Store the metadata in a Data Module

When importing from one environment to another one, the loaded metadata which the data modules reference to is not found. It gives you a warning when importing the deployment with the names of the Data source and Schema you need to load the metada...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

update internal load balancer algorithm to include system resources.

This will help additional failures when dynamic query heap get maxed.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow dynamic email subject line and email body on burst reports in Event Studio

The Email task in Event Studio has the capability of making the subject and body dynamic so data items can be dragged to those sections. If a burst report is used instead to perform the emails , the capability does not exist to tailor the outgaini...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Please help make Export and Import more efficient

The process of transferring objects from one server to another has not been efficient for a long time. The process is too cumbersome. It would help administrators a lot if we can drag objects from one server and drop them to another server by spec...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration