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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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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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Data modules - Possibility to control access to different data sources

We want to control which data sources (Packages, Data sets, Files, Data Modules, Databases) our customers could use when they create and edit data modules. Currently there is no possibilty to restrict the available data sources. Initially they sho...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Make field search in reports the same as dashboards.

Currently the field search in reporting doesn't show a tree structure for where the field is coming from. If you have two similarly named fields you won't know which one to choose. In dashboards it shows the tree structure of where the field origi...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Update Drill-Through Definitions Parameters Window to be more user friendly

It would be very helpful to update the Drill-Through definitions Parameters window to be more user friendly if it were possibly to do things such as changing every "Method" simultaneously to "Pass Parameter Value" or another option. Many times, es...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard: Coloring values based on a condition

In Dashboards i would like the ability to color values based on a condition. Eg. [Margin]<0.80=Red , 0.81<[Margin]<1 = Yellow , [Margin]>1 = Green. Maybe the feature: Conditional formatiing in Report Studio could be used somehow. This ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search for Query Items / Subjects in Report Studio

Currently, there is not a way to search packages added to a report in report studio as there is in the dashboard designer. (Here is an image with that https://goo.gl/TQv4qm ) We would like to see this ability added to report studio.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel Spreadsheet Tabs when using Microsoft plug-in

When using the Cognos Microsoft plug-in to run a report via Excel, the report output is always to a single tab in the spreadsheet even when the report has pages setup to do tabs. We would like the Excel Spreadsheet to be generated with separate tabs.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delete vs Write vs Full

Within the permissions of an object, we now have a hierarchy of security -- Read, Run, Write and Full. In previous versions, we had 5 permissions - Read, Execute, Traverse, Write and Policy (still kind of have this in the admin piece) but... In al...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report and Job run status should be at a User's tenant level

Currently on a Multi tenant setup, users are able to see public Report/Job run status in Cognos administration. Although the only visible details users see are the name of the report/job, time of execution, status and the name of the user who runs...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Ability to Report from a Data Set

Customer needs the ability to use Reporting against Data Sets. Dashboarding is fine using a data set for high performance, but customer has needs for more control than what a Dashboard can deliver. Reporting against an aggregated Data Set is impor...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Embed Python, R or Spark code in Cognos Analytics

We would like the ability to embed Python, R or Spark code within Cognos Analytics. Not sure on where to put it, but I think the best place is likely embedded in a data module, to allow for reuse on multiple reports and dashboards.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration