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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,


Post your ideas

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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Provide Donut Charts an option for central text/value

Donut version of a PIE chart by definition have an available area within the circle , and this is OFTEN utilised by displaying a value (Total or avg or something). This is done manually by overlaying a dashboard element. Providing this as an intri...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Object oriented building of report and visualization

Commonly, a report Object can be reused at creation within a new report. Nevertheless, it is just an inclusion with no link with the original piece of report.What is needed is to change this behaviour to an object oriented behaviour .Example : Rep...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sort members of Groups and Roles

I would like to be able to sort members within Groups and Roles. It is not easy to identify who is in a group or role, when names are in the order entered and not alphabetical.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module: Combine fact tables (like a presentation layer)

I want to have the capabilities to regroup measures(columns) from different tables into one folder. In other words, having the possibility of using a presentation layer which reference the measures. At the moment, I have to make my user navigate t...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Under review

UNABLE TO SET EXTERNAL DATA FILE TO AUTOMATICALLY LOAD

PH30480 UNABLE TO SET EXTERNAL DATA FILE TO AUTOMATICALLY LOAD
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Interactive Report within Portal Viewer

Would like the Interactive options inherent with Cognos ANalytics (like dynamic client side sorting and filtering) to be available through the Portal Viewers. I opened a helpdesk on it, and was told this was because they are two reporting interfac...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Limited information available regarding failed export of the content store in the Admin Console:

There is very limited information available when an export of the content store in the admin console failed, even when the "trace" option is enabled in the job. It is when you run a job in IBM Cognos Administration > Configuration > Content ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add options to configure acr_values for the generic OIDC Provider

Expand the IBM Cognos Configuration options for the generic OIDC Provider to include acr_values
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable connection to Active Directory Global Catalog

We need to be able to connect to Active Directory Global catalog via default port 3268 as preffered way to interract with our AD (instead of interacting with global domain root having several domains bellow like Europe/US/Asia/... ). Cognos Doc: "...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

URL opens new window when running multple reports

We run a url and it runs fine to open and run a report, but as soon as you rerun or run a new job, you get an authentication error. Then you need to close the browser window and run the new report.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect