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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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Dynamic (Relative) Default Value for dropdown widget on dashboards

we are looking to set a default value on the dropdown widget canvas or the standard filter and we want that default value to be based on current _month or last_refresh_date from a database table.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Prebuilt row count function on Cognos Report

We've noticed a challenge with our reports: users often need to gauge the scope of the data they're dealing with, which currently isn't straightforward in Cognos Reporting. While our reports can generate outputs ranging from 10,000 to 3 million re...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add fixed and relative values to baseline visualization

While building dashboards, it's common to have to see the baseline of a graph (lines or bars). This feature already exists in report studio (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.0?topic=properties-baselines)
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Allow for additional (administrator defined) locations for deployment archives to be placed, other than the single location defined in Cognos Configuration

Being able to direct backups to additional locations allows for greater data protection and security of those backups. For example, being able to direct specific backups to a mapped offsite storage location, NAS, or other high availability storage...
24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow a dynamic filename element (ie. Date-stamp) for deployment exports so that a history of deployments can be maintained.

This will benefit environments where automated backups are defined, but it is not desireable for the existing backup to be overwritten. For example, being able to access 4 weeks history of weekly backups, without having to script a rename/copy ope...
24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Set default AI Assistant source via customization of roles

In most environments, there are usually many packages nested in various places in team content. Some are AI Assistant relevant, others are not. If we could specify, by Cognos role, the default data source for the AI Assistant specifically, it woul...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Report References and Bursting

Report references allow you to create booklet like reports containing other reports. Report references are awesome! With very little effort you can combine reports. And there is no maintenance, changes in the reference report are automatic in the ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

I would like to preserve the new line character(\n) when uploading data files.

When I upload an Excel or CSV data file to Cognos Analytics, new line characters contained within text columns are automatically converted to space characters. On the other hand, new line characters included in database text columns are handled wi...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Support data modules in Event Agent

Event Agent (aka Event Studio) is still very important to work with alerts and events but is limitted to packages. As data modules get more importance we urgently need support of data modules in Event Agent (or future/modernized version of Event A...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Search should look for Ids, not just labels

WIthin Data Modules and Reports you can for items. For example, I could search for 'Sales'. This will show me all the items with Sales in the name. However, within reports and data module expressions, it is an objects Id that is shown and not the ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted