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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,

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  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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Geographic Location properties for township, section, range, quarter when setting representation to Goegraphic

Currently when you load a file, create a date module from a file or do an exploration from a file you can't selection the Township, range, section or quarter as a geographic representation. So if I want to show the top producing oil and/or gas w...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Date Prompts should be empty as default

the date prompts have as default value the current date.The problem ist, that when the date prompt is an optional prompt, than the user must always clear the date prompt, otherwise the value (current date) whould be used as filter.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Master-detail optimization in reports based on data modules

Currently, Master-detail optimization is the feature that has to be explicitly enabled by turning on a specific FM DQM governor and publishing the FM package. Without that feature turned on, most reports and burst reports containing master-detail ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option in portal to have folders/objects for Recent, Content, My Content or custom views appear in list view by default (instead of tile view by default)

Coming from release 11.1.7 to 11.2.2 users are more used to a list view for navigating to folders, reports, dashboards, etc. Users are also used to a list view when using the legacy portal to open cubes in Analysis Studio. We would like the option...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1

Provide a standard, intuitive, approach to applying changes on flyout panels

Since the initial release of Cognos 11 and its use of "flyout" panels there has always been confusion about how to apply changes that are made to property values in the flyout. Some panels have a "Done" button. Some have an "Apply" button. Some ha...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ralph Davis

Cognos Data Modules need expanded capabilities to model Planning analytics cubes. Basic model can be created, but limited in scope. As a result, any self service is diminished in the COgnos Dashboard environment.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Settings/Properties for Tab Filters

I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to suggest some enhancements that could significantly improve the functionality and user experience of tab filters in IBM dashboards. Currently, while we have the option to utilize tab filters, ther...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics content toggle menu functionality ehancement

The normal behavior in cognos analytics is if you run a report the report output shows up in the drop menu, then you can toggle away or close it if you don't need it anymore. That's fine except when you want to run the same report multiple times w...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add JSON as new report output format

Besides HTML, Excel, Excel data, CSV, PDF and XML there should be another output format for reporting: JSON
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Security issue with error messages when login in the portal with valid/invalid user ID

Normalize same error message during login with valid or invalid user ID. Error messages are different and allow someone to get valid user IDs.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration