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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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Calculate Percentage in Crosstab report based on dynamic Selection in Slider - Cognos Active Reports 10.2.1

When i select the Product line (Camping Equipment) and Year (2004 and 2005) i need the percentage is 92.72537076138057 Calculation - Percentage = ([Revenue]/[Planned revenue])*10092.72537076138057 = ( 735743911.23 / 793465591.12 ) * 100 Calculate ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace Advanced - drag whole meta tree to report including folders containing queryitems

QueryStudio allows users to drag complete Namespace to report.Replacement CWA (Cognos Workspace Advanced) does not drag items nested in folders. Users have unfold and drag folder items separetly. Coming from QS users are used to dragging the whole...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pass Data Context to/from Cognos Workspace/JDA Applications

Currently JDA passes context to/from a Cognos Report Studio report by reading the report specification (before rendering the report), and then injecting HTML items(check boxes) and providing the data context within a report to JDA application via ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to update or set prompts based on user AD Groups

Enhance prompt options to be driven by user AD Groups
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Accessibility features to sample reports.

Would like to see at least some sample reports where accessibility features are fully implemented and those samples identified in the documentation.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pass through SQL for Salesforce.com data source connector

Currently, Cognos BI does not support using Native or Pass-through SQL with JDBC connection to ERP vendors such as Salesforce.com. We would like that functionality to exist so we can send SOQL queries to Salesforce to return data
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Content Administration: Add ability to have date/timestamp on Content Export

Content deployment currently uses a fixed name for the deployment when the maintenance task is created. Add ability to suffix date/time to make unique exports.This would be liken to executing reports to save to file system. Options include to suff...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add the possibility for a group (functionnal admin) to access user's my folders

Hello, We would like to have the possibility to give access to user's my folders to people who are not system administrators. As an example, this possibility should be given to functionnal/content administrators in their day to day administration ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: change the left/right scroll arrows to move an entire task, not a teeny bit at a time

while editing an agent, author can scroll tasks via the right and left scroll buttons. The problem it takes about 3 clicks to reveal just one task. Change the horizontal movement to be 1 click moves one whole task.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 for zOS Support in Cognos

Cognos does not generate DDL for DB2 zOS which is clearly a supported Database in the specifications and manual yet does not generate DDL for the Content Manager DB for zOS DB2
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration