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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,

  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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Keyboard shortucts and keyboards arrows for query explorer

I would like to use keyboard arrows or command such pageup pagedown to be able to move between query items Using only mouse and point and click to select it is in some situations very slow and not smart.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Multi Select Cascaded Prompt Feature on Report Output Page

To give you a background, we want multi select cascaded prompts on top of the same report output page in Cognos Viewer without the need to introduce re-prompt button (or) any other built in tool options within the product. We used Java Scripts to ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

facility to hide 'send report by email' option

Please provide facility to hide the 'send report by email' option, so that users will not be able to select this.(this facility was there in Cognos 10). The schedule reports with 'email' option selected goes to waiting state and never get executed.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Control Record Counts in Report Preview Mode

When building reports in preview mode, you cannot control the number of records returned. When a user develops a report against a large table (100K+) the time to see updates and the taxing of the database server can be extreme.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

With Clause on SAP HANA

When migrating from SAP BW on Oracle to SAP HANA or in general when using SAP HANA as data source via JDBC Dynamic Query Mode is not generating complex SQLs with a WITH CLAUSE statement. During a major project with a bank we experienced that from ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide Right hand side Y axis in combination chart in dashboard

Hide Right hand side Y axis in combination chart in dashboard, as of now you either show both left hand side and right hand side, or none.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Chart scrolling when there are too many categories makes the content not readable in the dashboard

Chart Scrolling when there are too many categories not possible in the dashboard. In case of horizontal bars with the values - scrolling does not allow to view the bars and the values clearly
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Decimal Control when using the Currency-Abbreviate formatting

Currently there is no way to control the number of decimals when we use the currency-abbreviate format for a number in cognos dashboards. It randomly abbreviates sometimes to 1, 2 or no decimal today. When we have executive level dashboards, it w...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Enhance advanced dispatcher routing to allow for AdHoc/Non-Core reports to be routed differently to "Approved" reports.

This would be useful, as it would allow the organisation to ensure efficient execution of "approved" reports (possibly driven by an administrative flag in the product) to dedicated resources, whereas other reports would be routed to a default rout...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Font size in Summary control cannot be changed

Given that we can adjust the size of the label, the font of measure under the label is not adjustable. By dragging the corner, the size of label remains the same but the measure only changing not proportionally with the label
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration