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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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Crosstab Option to display "0" (ZERO) instead of "No Value" when the cell does not have value

The default behavior of Crosstab is to display "(no value)" for the cells without value. It would be nice to have option to display "0" ZERO instead.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Tibco DV Support

Please certify Tibco DV as a supported data source since Cognos previously supported Composite (aka Cisco Information Server, which is what Tibco was before getting rebranded.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Data Module Join Relationship Expression Editor for Complex Relationships

Kronos Database records are created using a FromEffectiveDate and a ToEffectiveDate, the most efficient way to query something as of a specific date is to say that date is between the FromEffectiveDate and the ToEffectiveDate. In Framework Manager...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

How to restrict only selected file extensions in CA 11.0.9

Hi Team, We want to restrict only below list of file extensions to be uploaded in the CA 11.0.9 . Please let us know how this can be implemented. .xls .xlsx.txt .csv
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Re-orientation of row selection in grid Dashboar

We have a dashboard with cross filters and table grid with rows. Whenever we select some row in table grid, its get highlighted. When we select some other cross-filter which can accommodate that particular row ( cross-filter can drive this grid ),...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

css in common view spec.json not loading

I wrote a custom control that includes a view with perspective "common".When I use the cssStyles attribute, the following happens: - On the login page, Cognos tries to load the css, but it gets an error 401, so the css is not loaded.- when logging...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Grouping of Columns in List Report

We are being tasked with developing a complex report that requires the use of Java Script and other advanced reporting techniques. One of the requirements is to be able to display groups of measures under a section in a list, much like a crosstab ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Snap to grid and the ability to size objects in the layout via drag actions

It would assist with a wyswyg style UI if additional design capabilities were available in report studio. One main improvement would be the ability to resize and move objects on the page layout without having to access the object properties and ch...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Copy and paste a value from a HTML list

As it was possible in C10, it would be very usefull to be able to copy a value from a page/query when executing in HTML and in interactive mode in order to paste out of Cognos Analytics. This is usefull when we have to check in external sofwares a...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Delivered

Enable Alerts in Cognos Mobile for OLAP data sources

In the mobile app we cannot currently set Alerts on visualizations that have an OLAP data source. In our case, most of our dashboards/visualizations are currently against PA cube data sources, and we are keen to use Alerts but can't. This impedes ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Delivered