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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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  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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Set the same Group Span for multiple columns in List object in Report Studio

currently in report studio of Cognos, there is no way to highlight multiple columns and set the same group span. have to high light each column and click on the group span and select multiple time. This is very annoying and not user friendly, grea...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Option to enable and disable highlighting common cells in a Table in interactive dashboard

Right now when there are common cells in a Table in interactive dashboard, clicking one of the common cells will highlight all common cells. Sometime this is useful but sometime this create confusion looking at the table. One way I learnt is to ad...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Filtertext should be formatable

The query filter text object should have style and format properties like other text elements.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11.0.10 Custom Group Issue

when a report is created using a model level filter with a dimension and measure column, all the values present in dimension column are not getting displayed when a custom group is defined on that dimension column, instead only few values are disp...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support ODBC connectivity to Elastic search in Linux machines

Support ODBC connectivity to Elastic search in Linux machines
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a feature to disable the "clean-up" the metadata presentation when loading data of Data server connection

Context : Using imported Teradata views to create data moduleAfter importing the views and display them in a new data module we notice that the name are different from the Teradata Data sourceall the "underscore" character are removed
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Value Prompt: Multi-select and Auto-submit

In Cognos 10.2.1 Fix Pack 3, I could set Auto-submit = Yes and Multi-select = Yes on a value prompt. At some point thereafter, the ability to have that combination was removed. IBM Support has stated that having both of those properties = Yes can ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Being able to generate output in Excel format for an Audit report

Create Execute reports, dashboards and stories by package for past 30 days as a normal report (in addition Active report)
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Allow selective email overrides for the Notification Default Sender

Users who initiate a burst report, have the default email address taken from Cognos Configuration under "Notifications". Several users would like to be able to override the default email address with their company email address. Currently this ove...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SDK - create report view

As an OEM provider, we are integrating some of the Cognos functionality into our product to accommodate consumer users without the need to go to Cognos directly. The Cognos application resides within our iframe. When clicking the 'Create Report Vi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration