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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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Restore the ability to select a different output format from Cognos Viewer when launched from Reporting (AKA Report Studio)

In older versions of Cognos (v10.2.2 and earlier) when you run a report from Report Studio, in the Cognos viewer on the menu bar, the author can select a different output format than what was initially executed. This is a handy usability feature w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Ability to create alias tables in data modules

Need the ability to create Alias Tables in Data modules. This is a requirement to effectively use data modules instead of Framework Manager.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Delivered

Integrate Event Studio functionality into C11 Analytics core

Event Studio in v10.2.2 was a very handy toolset that allowed businesses to schedule jobs with much more detail than the regular scheduler. We were able to verify conditions, and create detailed step by step actions to take. Also, the communicatio...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

No summary on calculated fields (for Dashboards)

When we are using dashboards, we are not capable to summarize any calculated fields. (11.0.7)
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Cognos 11.0.7 - Ability to hide/edit 'Quick reference' links from Welcome Page.

Links of Quick reference included to the Welcome page are not relevant to our business users - we'd like to be able to hide them or replace with business related references.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Customisable axes in Dashboard Combo Chart

In CA Reports, it is possible to define the axes range for a combo chart. However, in dashboard, this feature is not possible. Our client would like to see the same data value range on a combo chart in a dashboard, but this is currently not possible.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Ability to specify order in Cognos Analytics graphs (e.g. Geo, Unit)

We would like the ability to specify order in graphs in Cognos Analytics dashboards. The sort function is there but we have a specifc order for many data elements that we use to help manage the business.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Enable grouping on categories (when nested along X-Axis) within a dashboard visualization

Enable grouping on bars (when nested along X-Axis) within a dashboard visualization. When working with visualizations within Dashboard in CA 11.0.7, one requires the ability to expose grouping capabilities along X-Axis categories (or in CA 11.0.7,...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Support for new Japanese imperial era name

Japanese imperial era name will be changed within near future.https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/19/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-may-announce-new-imperial-era-name-summer-2018/#.WaYIHGdSCIs Cognos BI 10.2.x products supports Japanese i...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Cumulative Totals in Dashboards, Data Modules and Data Sets

Currently, Cumulative Totals (running total, moving total) are not possible in Dashboards, Data Modules and Data Sets. Please add them.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered