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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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How to display current year as default value in the Year Prompt

Customer need to display current year as default value in Year Prompt. They say this behavior has to be built into the Cognos software as this is very common requirement.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

ENH : Prompt : Add the possibility to select the top N of selected level with possibility to display total and other

With the possibility to select all elements of a level in a tree prompt (COGCQ00882968) we would like to be able to do a top of these elements from one level in order to display the priority for the Business.It would then be interesting to do a cu...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH : Add the possibility to type in quickly the desired value for a prompt instead of searching for it

When a user already knows what he wants to select he doesn�t want to go through all the tree prompt to select the precise element.They would like the possibility to directly type in the value. It could then be interesting to have a field to type...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH : Prompt : Add the possibility to create custom consolidation from selected elements

We would like the possibility to create a custom consolidation from selected elements. When we do not want to use the existing hierarchical consolidation it could be interesting to have an option to create a custom consolidation that sum all eleme...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH : Prompt : Add a select all option in tree prompts

When we want to display all elements of a hierarchy from a tree prompt we have to click them one by one which is very time consuming and generates a lot of clicks. We would like the possibility to select all displayed elements. It is closed to the...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Possibility to prefill tree prompt with dynamic list

we would like to be able to prefill tree promptswith dynamic list of elements on prompt rendering. Today it ispossible to preseelct elements but only with default static selectionsin report studio. We would like to prefill tree prompts based on aq...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH : Prompt : Add the possibility to select elements by level in the tree prompt

We would like the possibility to select elements by level in a tree prompt .This could be done for example with a contextual menu from any element. The different options will be the following :� Select children of selected elements� Select all...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request to change the behavior of the select delivery method option

Client requests that it if when they use the select delivery method option for a long running interactive report that the report server request is cancelled and the request is forwarded to the batch report service immediately instead of waiting fo...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Fit to page on Legal Letter or customer Size paper

Report Studio option of changing the paper to Legal Size paper does not fit the charts properly in terms of width and height. The charts get carried over to the second page. Client wishes to have option of fit to page width and height for Legal Le...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Permanent un-editable report header

The customer would like a permanent report header which is displayed at the top of every report when creating a new report. They want this header to be un-editable. We attempted using a report template and adding the banner to the header CSS but s...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration