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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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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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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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In dashboards, global or "for this tab" filters based on different levels from same hierarchy should cascade

Users will get a much more intuitive experience if the filters in a dashboard would cascade if they are made of different levels in the same hierarchi.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Map Visualization: make maximum legend items configurable. Current limit is 100.

When using a 11.1 Map visualization with a Points layer, it’s not possible to have the legend show more than 100 items. We have a dataset with 134 items, but the visualization cuts off the legend at 100 items even though the legend is scrollable a...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Delivered

Refresh button for Data Module Source

Today it's very complicated to update source table in data module. For example we have an Excel file, which structure has been changed (added column). To update the Excel in Data Module we have to reimport the file through source view again. Even ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Please bring back select/unselect check box

In earlier cognos releases prior to 11, we could select/unselect entries using check box, so I could select all entries by just one click. There is no way to do it in Cognos 11, making it extremely difficult and time consuming to select items.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Display Logged In User Info in Home App Bar

Show the name of the logged in user in the Home App Bar instead of just a "person" icon.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Context Filter Not Passed in Drill Through

System: Cognos BI 10.2.1 - Workspace Advanced (WSA) When users build their own reports in WSA and drop a member in the Context Filter WSA displays values based on that filter. When the same user drills through to a detailed report via a Drill-Thro...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Expand table visualizations on Dashboards when exporting to PDF

When exporting a Dashboard to a PDF users expect the option to have a table visualization to expand so all of the values are visible without a scrollbar, even if it expands on to additional pages.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Delivered

Enhanced Widget Connections in Dashboards

The request behind this idea is to have additional control over how dashboard visualizations respond to each other via widget connections. It is understood that additional connections can be created to group respective visualizations together but ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Extend scriptable interface with methods for determine the type of a prompt control

The scripting interface for custom controls and page modules offers currently (v11.0.11) no documented javacript-method for getting the type of a certain prompt control (e.g. TextPrompt, selectBox etc.).
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Restore the Report Studio interface customization feature

It is no longer possible to configure the Report Studio interface based on user profile. This is very disturbing because many customers consider that the RS interface is too rich for the users and look for a functional perimeter close to Query Stu...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered