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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

  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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reusable custom group

Instead of creating custom group in Data module for adhoc semi-adhoc report. or create a group for every single query or global query. The business is looking for a capability to do that directly in the explorer object
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

remove the default group by

Using the report studio on V11.1.5: When we drag and drop two objets in column section it automatically group by the first colunm. example: Country City Measure ---------------------------------------- France Paris 88 Marseille 55 Bordeaux 40 ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Calculate distance using geospatial objects

We want to be able to calculate who travels the longest distance using postal codes and who travels the longest distance most frequently.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics permit/denied Job creation

currently all users can create jobs, I wish I could decide, as in many other Cognos tools, to whom to give or to whom to remove this functionality . No workaround. Need to create a capabilities to manage this functionality. User can create a Job w...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow "initial values" to be changed on "Filetr Applied" option of "parameterized query items" dragged inot Workspace

When dragging parameterized query items, their value can't be changed using “Filter Applied” options, and the initial value that was selected is “locked" into the chart/list
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace Advanced - Context Filter limitations

User selects multiple items from tree and pulls in Context Filter. a. Now user wants to remove only one item from this context filter, there is no way to remove only one item and keep the remaining.b. User wants to temporarily turn on/off some of ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace Advanced - Please provide Rows,Columns,Context Bar similar to Analysis Studio

Analyis Studio provides an area where we can easily drop items to display on rows or columns. They also have handle which makes it super easy to move the items around to change nesting order or transpose from rows or columns.Workspace Advanced doe...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Database column description for QuickInfo

Most database tables contain descriptions for their columns. These descriptions should be accessible for Cognos to fill the QuickInfo-Box for model users.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatic Reset of workspace

Currently, workspace widgets need to be reset individually or collectively using reset widget utility. But, even after the collective reset using utility, subsequent changes in the reports need rerun of the reset utility.If there is an automatic r...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data select and copy feature in Report Studio Active Reports Output

Hi, there is no way to select and copy the output data of an Active Report (MHT File) that is developed in Report Studio. So, a PMR has been raised for it and based on support suggestion, we intend to log this enhancement request as our customers ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration