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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:


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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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273 VOTE

Dashboard - Combination Chart with More Options

The most used chart type on Cognos reports is the combination chart where multiple columns and lines are sharing the same axis. Currently Dashboard only supports one column and one line on different axis and different scale and this really prevent...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered
252 VOTE

Waterfall chart or Step Chart

Waterfall charts or step charts are a common requirement for Financial Reporting. In Excel the approach is to use transparent colours in a stacked bar chart to build the height required to just show the differences). In the Explorer view a Waterfa...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered
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

Locking and Unlocking Elements in PAW

I have recently run into an instance at a client where they had inadvertently and accidently locked a specific element of a dimension causing access to be blocked for this element (a version dimension) for all users across the server - in this cas...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Function calling feature in watsonx.ai API

Function calling feature is not available in the sdk or REST API. Functions/tools calling features (Function calling is the ability to reliably connect LLMs to external tools to enable effective tool usage and interaction with external APIs.). The...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 6 Delivered

Support MIG GPUs for foundation model serving

The documentation states that MIG is not supported for foundational model serving in watsonx. Our current infrastructure does not allow us to use GPU passthrough, as our internal infrastructure team relies on vGPU and MIG for availability and easy...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Delivered

Header of rows to appear in tables

It would be more than great to have name of header for the rows to be available in table view. Today it is possible for Attributes. We would like to have the same with Dimension name. Could have a good impact on user acceptance. See screen shot fo...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 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 ?
about 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.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered