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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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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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230 VOTE

Customization of new Homeview screen

We have more than 3 clients currently asking and wanting to customize their home screen in Cognos Analytics. The new default (11.0.7+) has additional "tiles" that show recently ran reports and a quick links section at the right that shows some IBM...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Delivered
181 VOTE

Allow Search requests to be constrained to a folder

As in Cognos 10, allow a search request to be constrained to only those objects that exist in a folder and its sub-folders.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered
247 VOTE

Support for Microsoft Edge Browser

Client would like to know if Microsoft Edge Browser will be supported by Cognos 10.2.2 release or any future release and what are the timelines for its support ?
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered
174 VOTE

Zero/Null Suppression to Dashboard Widgets

Please add zero / null suppression option to Cognos Analytics Dashboards similar to Reports context menu option.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered
157 VOTE

Create Read-Only Dashboard Security Option

Have the ability to give consumers read-only access to dashboards. So: view and run, interact with existing prompts, but NOT create or edit.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered
170 VOTE

Conditional Formatting on Dashboard Visualizations

Using Dashboards in Cognos Analytics, enable the capability to apply conditional formatting to dashboard visualizations (charts, summaries, and other visualizations, not just grids).
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Delivered
142 VOTE

Multi Select Option for PAW

The current dimension element selector only allow users to select a single element from a dimension but no option to select multiple elements and see aggregated data on the fly. The MDX based calculation(Summerized) option is not as intuitive as a...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Delivered
141 VOTE

Cognos Analytics Home Page should accept User Favorite Reports and not only Recent Reports

Have the ability to switch between Recent Report and Users Favorite Reports on Cognos Analytics Home Page Portal
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Delivered

Import metadata in the database level

Import metadata in the database level, and not in the schema level. Why: if a new schema is created in the database, it is currently not automatically identified by a recurrent job created in the Cloud Pak for Data project. If the job could be con...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered
151 VOTE

Enable numbers to be displayed on graphs (bar, column, line, point , stacked bar, stack column)

Currently numbers are only displayed on bubble charts or slices on the pie chart. This functionality should be extended to add numbers to bar, column, line, point , stacked bar, stack column charts This enhancement needs the option to abbreviate t...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Delivered