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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


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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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

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

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
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sybase ASE JDBC Driver

Cognos 10.2.2 does not support the Sybase ASE in DQM mode. Please configure Cognos to support a Sybase JDBC driver. Our current Version of Sybase ASE is 15.7
over 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

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

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

Need ability to search dimensions and levels, not just members.

We have many sources in our environment, but they are not all documented formally yet. And some of our dimension levels definitely contain more than 20 items.As an author, I often have a need to determine if a particular source has a particular di...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace pass parameter in URL

Include the ability to pass a parameter into a Workspace URL to be used by applicable reporting objects.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration