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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:


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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

  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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Cascading filters in Dashboard

In the Dashboard tool in Cognos Analytics when we use two different filters from the same package/table, filtering on one column does not filter the second column to narrow the values to a smaller subset.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Restrict Cognos Report Studio Authors from creating User Defined SQL reports

Please add option to restrict Cognos Report Studio Authors from creating new / editing existing SQLs from within report studio. They should still be able to run existing User defined SQL reports which are built by Cognos administrators.Please foll...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Customize Dashboard Templates

As an author of a dashboard in Cognos Analytics, I would like to be able to customize my own templates to adapt them to each case.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Allow conditional formatting in dashboard

When we drag a measure into table, we are able to see distribution of values. We can alter the range there and be able to select color pallette. It would be nice to simply drag a measure into a tile on a dashboard and be able to do some conditiona...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

View 'Members Tree' on Dashboard tool for Dimensional datasources

We have many Transformer cubes and we want to use them as a Datasource on the dashboard tool. This works fine but the fact is that there are several manual categories created in the cube dimensions. We need to use those categories to create dashbo...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Setting the content defaults globally

In CA 11.2.1 you can set up content similar to Cognos Connection in 10.2 if you change to List View, row size "Compact" and sort by "Type". Unfortunately this has to be set for every browser for every client because this custom settings will be st...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Delivered

Refreshbutton in Cognos BI 11 Portal

In contrast to IBM Cognos 10.X the portal of IBM Cognos Analytics does not offer a refresh button to refresh the content of the folder the user gets displayed.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

RAVE2 SDK

Besides all visualisations not provided out of the box (yet) it would be great if there was a full blown RAVE2 SDK that would allow clients or partners to build their own RAVE2 visualisations.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

KPI Visualization

When using Dashboards to display KPIs, the Number widget/visualization shows only the number (and name) from the data source.This RFE suggests a (new) KPI Visualization that instead takes two numbers and can be adjusted / customized using properti...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Cognos ability to read from REST API services

One challenge we are facing today is the ability to read data from non-traditional databases such as Marklogic, Nginx, NoSql databases which talk through Rest API for most of their functionality. They not only enable real time reporting requiremen...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered