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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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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

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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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Ability to set the range filter to the string data type column in Cognos Workspace Advanced

The data type has been set to either nChar or nvarChar for the alpha-numeric columns such as date(yyyymmdd), membership number, and partner code. The database is Teradata. They would like to use the range filter to the string column that is provid...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced error information for data modules

Data modules are created and used for extended periods of time without changing and multiple reports are built off them. If a data source is renamed or moved multiple reports fail, however the error message they generate don't point the data modul...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Visualisation object source

Possibility to add a source to visualisation object as it is for chart objects.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Render Text from IBM Planning Analytics in Cognos Reports and Dashboards

Ability to render free form (unstructured) text such as user comments from IBM Planning Analytics in Cognos Reports and Dashboards. Currently, text sourced from IBM Planning Analytics does not render in Cognos Analytics reports and dashboards. Ide...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Cognos BI DQM properties for Amazon Redshift Database Processing

Cognos BI XQE properties for Amazon RedShift currently does not support many new database functions, including MEDIAN, PERCENTILE_CONT, PERCENTILE_DISC etc. as per Amazon RedShift 2014 release notes. a. PERCENTILE_CONT b. PERCENTILE_DISC c. REGEXP...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Caching of large packages or modules for low bandwidth

Several users need to work in low bandwidth environments (5 or 2x2 Mbit), which currently may result in slow loading or in JS timeouts when large packages (35MB model.xml) are loaded in Authoring. With this idea, users in low bandwidth environment...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

List interactivity: Clicking on a row in a list should highlight a country in a Map

List interactivity: Clicking on a row in a list should highlight a country in a Map
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Seeing the contents of user's profile is not possible in Manage but only in old admin console

We try to use only Manage. In general just please add all functionalities from console to Manage. Detail: in Manage > Accounts when you see a user you can't see its content but instead just properties. This can be seen only in old Administratio...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add a snapshot of a report output to an existing email or Slack message stream

Provide an option that would take a snapshot of a report output (with markups) and copy it to the clipboard. This would facilitate augmenting an existing message exchange with additional report snapshots as opposed to requiring a new share reque...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Azure BLOB storage cloud connection to save report output

In Cognos 11.1.5 are Cloud Object Storage providers introduced. With this solution is it possible to save report output to an external Cloud Object Storage provider like IBM, Google and Amazon. Azure, one of the biggest cloud service providers, is...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration