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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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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 will be set to view members only (hierarchy structure on left) to mimic analysis studio

Default will be set to view members only (hierarchy structure on left) to mimic analysis studio
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

In "My schedules and subscriptions," display the current enable/disable status as selected by the user

In My schedules and subscriptions, if you enable/disable the schedule from ... (More), and then Properties or Modify Schedule, the status does not update in the list of schedules/subscriptions. However, when you click ... (More) and then Enable/Di...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filter Linked Visualizations When Filtered Field Exists in the Visualization

Linked visualizations currently only highlight when a value is selected in another visualization containing the same field; if a visualization does not contain the same field, then values are filtered. We need all linked visualizations to behave c...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Include Accounting Format for currency values

Like the Currency format, the Accounting format is used for monetary values. But, this format aligns the currency symbols and decimal points of numbers in a column. In addition, the Accounting format displays zeros as dashes and negative numbers i...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Searchable Tree Prompt

Either extend existing Tree Prompt or add a new insertable object that allows for text searching of elements in a tree prompt.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

connect directly to IBM Data Virtualization Manager on z/OS? through cognos

we are looking to DVM to Cognos - Connectivity it will redundant using multiple tools to connect/access data from IBM Data Virtualization Manager on z/OS? and it will give option to directly connecting to Mainframe databases.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Summary - detailed visualization in the visualization map

Summary - detailed visualization in the visualization map
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to sort on Subtotals and Totals

Dynamic Sorting on Subtotals and Totals
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to get data to the Alert Banner from the database

Today we can add alert banner manually. We would have possibility to get good alerts automatically directly from the database. Alerts would be available real-time and without manual maintenance work by admin people.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Forecasting data needed available to the table visualization and exporting to Excel

Forecasting in IBM Cognos Analytics is an automated functionality, but we are not able to see forecasting data in the table. If we are forecasting, we need to have also possibility to give same data to the end users. We have several areas where we...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release