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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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Data Module Table Repoint

We had some tables moved from one schema to another I couldn't repoint nicely within the native Analytics Data Module compared with what we could with Legacy Framework. I was able to relink the old schema to the new but since we were already using...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 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.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Need Alphabetical order returned independent of the reporting object

In 11.1 and up you now sort first by object type, but that breaks all the navigation we had to rebuild in moving from 10 to 11. We would much prefer the return of custom sorting, but at the very least need someway to specify a sort order.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Scheduler blackout period

Users have the ability to create scheduled reports and subscriptions 24/7 regardless of maintenance/data refreshes/imports/exports etc. It would be beneficial to have the ability to create regularly scheduled "blackout" periods (IE: no reports sch...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Post-Aggregation to Active Reports

Need to be able to add Post-Aggregation to Active Reports to properly calculate so a viable offline solution can be provided that is in line with Standard Reports. Right now without the ability to do post-aggregation the % value on the viz chart i...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos mobile for Blackberry Dynamics: support a connection via a proxy

The current version of Cognos Mobile for Blackberry Dynamics only supports a direct connection. For security reasons we are using a proxy sever and have connection problems using de Cognos mobile app.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to query Content Store to find schedules for particular email recipient

Cognos should have ability to query content store database, to retrieve details like - How many schedules have a particular email id as recipient. It may be possible via audit, but only when the schedules are running.- How many schedules are creat...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Avoid message box when generating SQL/MDX

Avoid message box when generating SQL/MDX, every time clicking on the button is annoying. And our report developers generate SQL/MDX very often.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Automatically renew past/current activities

Renew past/current activities automatically or add a renew button
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future 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.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration