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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


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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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Option for replacing/updating packages without breaking existing usages of the package when importing content.

There is need to update a package and a Dashboard (only these two objects in a big folder structure) in a PROD-Environment by moving, copying or migrating from a DEV-Environment. The updated package is used in many more Dashboards and Reports, but...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Display the totals at the top in stacked columns

It is only showing the subtotals within the bars, but not to what they add up to at the top.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Start a histogram positioned in the LAST date

If the histogram represents the daily evolution, it would be good the chart to start with the last date selected as the data within the chart is dynamically changing every day, adding a new date. So although one can sort the date asscending or des...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Orienting column text Vertically in a list

HR Users would like to present reports to upper mgmt with this formatting.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Reports Set with output of Excel 2007 are being changed to HTML, when importing Content Store from 10.x. to 11.x

When importing a Content Store from C10 to C11, any report set as Excel 2007, and being changed to HTML. This is requiring hundred of reports having to be modified manually to the new EXCEL option.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to secure specific folders with password or to hide them in Cognos Analytics

Ability to secure specific folder with password or to hide it in Cognos Analytics.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Enable Business Glossary option in data modules

Hello, It would be very helpful to be joined to search Business Glossary (or internal Wiki) to retrieve additional information about the fields and tables in a data module. For the time being, this option only exists in the Report module, but it w...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The ENTER key should still work for Text box prompts that are Multi-select but not Mult-line

It would be great if when users were using Text box prompts that are multi-select but NOT multi-line if the ENTER key on their keyboard would still send values over into the Text box prompt list. This is the same behavior that existed prior to the...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ignore Case when migrating databases in Cognos Framework Manager

We are currently migrating from DB2 to Hive. The table and column names in DB2 are in upper case. Hive databases only contain lower table and column names. Apparently, hive is case insensitive and will not allow upper case table and field names. W...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to show % and number on the charts

HR users would like to use this functionality to present the reports to Upper management to make the right decisions. Right now, the charts either show % or number. There is no option to show both.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release