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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,


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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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Setting a default or preferred Data Source Connection per role

Most of our customers has more than one data source for the same package. For example, a connection to the realtime production database and a connection to the test database. Everytime you make a new report you'll receive a data connection prompt....
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to set the values ​​of the levels of the colors in the maps

I would like to have the ability to be able to set color levels exactly on map displaysCurrently we have the ability to set a degraded scale of colors or to set up to 9 color points, but we can not associate colors to an exact value.In this way, t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to manually set and adjust the levels of the scales on maps

I would like to have the ability to be able to set color levels exactly on map visualizations Currently we have the ability to set a degraded scale of colors or to set up to 9 color points, but we can not associate colors to an exact value In thi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Let users add Folders to the Navbar

As long as there's no plan to add a Favorite Folder beside or instead of Recent Folder, let users copy Folders to the Navbar. Users should be allowed to create a Folder in their My Content and move it into the Navbar Such as a Favorite Folder, use...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Stop user related data from being passed in the cookie value

When viewing the raw logging for Cognos Analytics 11 user related data is passed in the cookie value. This should not occur.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Aggregate aware joins in FM

Hi for many years I have been hoping for a feature in framework manager to allow 'aggregate aware' joins in the model. This feature is in SAP IDT tool and let's you choose to substitute the join toto fact table based on aggregate level, e.g regula...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Fully implement Cognos person namespace

Hi, in Cognos 11 the fast install includes an ldap and the admin gui works with this namespace to allow creating users etc. Please fully implement this as it's own install option and improve support for tenant features. Being able to manage users ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Schema's name should not be mandatory in Cube Designer just like in Framework Manager

We have different database schema's name in each environment such as DEV_Cognos, UAT_Cognos and PROD1_Cognos and Prod2_Cognos. In the cube designer, we have to define the schema's name otherwise an error will be returned. Therefore promoting from ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard page prompt: Being able to setup Direction of the items such as across and down

Dashboard page prompts, user should be able to setup the Direction of the items such as across and down Instead of having a list that shows only a few items than need to scroll down, would prefer to have a choice to have at least a few across. Wou...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Abilitiy to use query items from a joined query in report authoring

Abilitiy to use query items from a joined query in report authoring Case TS001884812 A joined query with a filter is not selectable item in report Authoring. On the joined query there is a filter, if we not use the joined query, the filter is no...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration