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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


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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Vertical fit to one page

Hello, In report studio, there is an option to avoid horizontal pagination.We would like to have the same option for vertical pagination.This would force the report to fit to one page (reducing automatically table's width).Thank you in advance
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to show blank or custom string instead of #!Security in studios when accessing a secured Transformer cube

If a Transformer cube has custom views, and if some users are part of several custom views, there may be situations where users have rights to see some categories from some dimensions, but not the data at the intersection. In such a case, Analysis...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow System Administrator to have a custom folder(s)

As a follow up to the following, we are requesting a modification to allow system administrators to have a custom folder on the navigation bar. PI79148: CUSTOM FOLDER FEATURE DOESN'T WORK FOR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR(http://www-01.ibm.com/support/do...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add a function to determine if we are in the last row of a list or a crosstab

Ability to determine with a report function if we are in the last row of a list or a crosstab in order to apply specific layout (color coding).
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Making the data items in visualization (columns, rows, length, x-axis, y-axis,...) optional not mandatory

Remove the block on having some items in visualization mandatory, making them more optional and recommended like other BI tools to improve the user experience when creating objects and making them more udnerstandable.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Rebuild data coming from historical data generated in a DWH by the technique SCD Type 2

Have Built in Cognos functionality to assist in rebuilding data coming from a DWH using various types of SCD (Slowly Changing Dimension, especially: Type 2). End users would greatly benefit from the ability to easily flip between current and histo...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add list for measures in dashboard

We would like to drag multiple measures in the layout and have a list to filter the content like sales units, forecasted units,....so that users can select which one to use in chart.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to use Horizontal Page Count in Conditionnal Style

We would like to have the possibility to use the Horizontal Page Count function in conditionnal style.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to expand a tree prompt element even if some elements are breaking hierarchy order

When a user has acces to the total of the hierarchy then doesn't have acces to the next level but has acces to the following level, elements from this level are not accessible from the tree prompt with rootMembers. As the total hierarchy display n...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Transformer Data Source Signon loops when it should provide a detailed error message

Viewing the data in Transformer or attempting to build a PowerCube causes the Data Source Signon page to be displayed. User enters credentials and clicks OK. The signon dialog is displayed again and this loop continues. Requested Change.An error s...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration