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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:


Search existing ideas

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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Shift Click to Select Multiple Rows when in Preview View

We would like to select multiple rows when in Preview View. Typically we do this by holding down the shift key while clicking on additional rows. Example: when in report preview view, the user cannot select the top data row, and then shift-click t...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to merge data in data sets instead of overwriting

Currently when edit data set in My Data Sets in the way to upload a new file into existing DB then existing data in DB will be overwritten. The ability is requested to be able to merge the new data with existing data in DB. A comfortable way would...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Predefined trigger name via drop down list

It is possible to set a trigger name for scheduling reports via external trigger. This trigger name is a text input box and should be configurable for predefined values to ensure correct naming. Until version 11.1.5. with a unsupported customizati...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

All tabs/This tab filters exclusion

In Cognos Analytics as of now, when filters are added to All tabs/This tab filter, they are applied for all visualizations. Quite often it will be useful to allow to exclude/avoid applying the top filters in individual visualization (the only work...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Data Server and Data Source Connection Management

To add on to: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22013646 Under the "Admin Classic UI," I see both Data Server and Data Source Connections. With a couple of hundred Analytics Users who will likely create a few Data Server Connectio...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Crosstab - Ability to rename 'Summary' row

For certain crosstabs, the aggregate or 'Summary' row as it is labelled is not always the ideal wording for the aggregate, and we have had users asking if it could be renamed in instances to 'Total' for example. This would be helpful from a usabil...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Search feature with a "Value Prompt"

Allow user to have search feature with a "Value Prompt".
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

KPI Distance precision

For the KPI widget, add a way to control the decimal places in the Target distance percentage. Currently only the Target value can be formatted. It is set with 2 decimal places. I want no decimal places.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

timeout notification

For accessibility Compliance of WCAG 2.1 - LEVEL A- Compliance 2.2.1 Timing Adjustable, We need to provide a notification of timeout to our end users for any time less than 20 hours. I understand that there are options for the user to extend time,...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow URLs to be created on the Public Folders tab (not within a folder)

We would like to add a URL object to the Public Folders tab, but Cognos "Only Packages and Folders can be created under the root "Public Folders" directory." per this Technote: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21688742
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration