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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


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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 change data source on an upgraded data set

If you have an upgraded data set which has a data source with multiple data source connections (i.e. DEV and PROD) then when you replace the package you are not prompted to select a data source connection. If you create a new data source in 11.2.1...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos BI compatibility with Oracle 12c Multitenant functionality

we are on cognos BI 10.2.1 FP4 , DBA team is working to upgrade Oracle platform and move all the databases from 11g to Oracle 12c. we want to use service name in JDBC connection string but it 's not allowing to use service name , it looks like it ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Setting to control the default option of Conflict Resolution when saving reports to file system

When we save a report to file system, the default option for Conflict Resolution is Replace. Since we want to use the Time Stamp option, we will have to check the option every time. We would like to have a setting that we can set Time Stamp as the...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Similar Behavior within safari whether on iPhone or iPad

Today if a user navigates Cognos and runs a report using safari on an iPad, behavior is as expected, you can pinch to zoom and pan left to right, or scroll top to bottom and see the entire report. The same behavior on an iPhone is a different expe...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Move the 'Edit Data Item Label' button left in toolbar. This option is selected many times more than others (such as sort).

In building many reports I must change most of the field labels on the actual report the user gets. I must select the three ellipses and in the drop down select the 'Edit Data Item Label'. This is time consuming. This is used much more often than ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

My Activities and Schedule - Ability to turn on/off Graph Viz Chart from past/upcoming activities

Currently most of the screen gets covered by the graph/chart and user has to use slider bar to see the reports and its run details etc. Its not very convenient. There should be on/off button to enable / Disable the chart/graph so that user can use...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Integrate the configuration of Cognos BI with the UI

The configuration of the Cognos BI should be integrated in the Cognos Connection Administrative area. The process of configuring and optimizing the environment is outdated, manual and prone to error.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Powerplay Client Explain feature in Workspace Advance

Workspace Advanced does not have similar functionality to that which was available in Powerplay Client Explain feature.The Explain feature is very helpful for business users to know the Drill down path of a member.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automated Axis title with multiple metrics in Dashboard

In the current dashboard, the product automatically rendering the text "Values" whenever we are trying to use the multiple metrics. IS there any way we can customize it to change to meaningful verbiage
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio Filter panes: Show more filter if space allows

In report studio when editing a query, the Filters panes on the right side truncate the contents of the filters, even though there is room to show more
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration