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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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In dashboard, create prompts in mono selection

When you create a prompt in Dashboard (for all tag, or for one tag), your prompt is always with many selections.I woukd like to have the capability to have mono selection.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Table - Complex Aggregation

We rely heavily on calculated percentages / rates that are embedded within our framework modeler packages, both relational and DMR. Many of these calculations require complex aggregation that entails the percentage / rate (such as return on sales ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Hyperlink items in dashboard

We often generate lists with detailed information in external systems. in a report we are able to make a list with hyperlink items. However, in a dashboard, such a hyperlink for a list is currently not available img1: hyperlink item in a report im...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics - Lineage from Report Viewer

Include Lineage in the pop-up toolbox from the new viewer. So that report users can see the source of the data. Not just authors looking at data items in the package. This functionality is available in 10.2.2
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide a Security Apex / Consumer Root for Cognos Analytics

With IBM Cognos 10.x administrators had the option to set a a consumer root / security apex for their users. This allowed administrators to have an area in which the could stage releases while users only saw an specific area of the environment. Co...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display Report in the Business Analytics Dashboard tab. Share the same Report between Dashboards.

Display and share reports created using new report authoring environment in the Dashboards.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a column in Audit database where the parent report name can be retrieved for a report view

We have a report for which we have created report views in "My Folder".We want to tie up all the runs of these report views to their parent reports in the audit report. For example, when we create report views with different names and run them, th...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Creating custom URLs to display and run Cognos Analytics content

In Cognos 10.2 its possible to build custom URLs to display and run Cognos content. This has enabled us to build dashboards where pre-run burst report outputs are viewable at a click of a button/link via a webpage. The webpage has links which are ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Create default Metadata settings

We would like to create default settings for all users with for the following: Metadata vs. Member tree, Single Members vs. Sets, bringing in Members vs. Children and Expanding and Collapsing on drill throughs. Example: If we wanted to make it so ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Microsoft Dynamics as a data source

We have a lot of application development be done using Microsoft Dynamics, because Power BI supports Dynamics and the option sets, departments end up using Power BI and Cognos isn't consider as a reporting option even thou we also have Cognos.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration