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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:


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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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Merge queries and variables when copying objects between reports

If you copy objects from report A to report B in new version of Cognos, it always creates new assets when the name of queries or variables matching on both reports. We are facing this problem when more than one developer creates the report or when...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Use AI to provide a summary of text fields

databases provide limited capability for aggregating text - Min / Max / Count is about it. But AI is demonstrating how it can provide a summary from a lot of text input. We could use AI to provide a text summary. For example, we could have a produ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Change the data module used within a report without breaking the report

Reports often need to be repointed to different data sources from those that were used to create them. Scenario 1. For example we notice an error in a data module. In a typical production system we cant just update the live data module, we could b...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Send schedule only when there is data (without using event studio)

Our users are sending reports to external customers and they want to send these reports only when there is a data in the report.If there is no data, then they don't want to send any email.They cannot use Event studio as they don't have access to.I...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement security options for data sets

In data modules it is possible to imeplement data security filters (eg. based on cognos groups). As data sets is a very strong option in many areas we need to implement data security filters in data sets as well. available approaches with macros i...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Provide options for direct css manipulation in customisations

Since upgrading from V11.1.7 to V11.2.4 we have encountered an issue where icons rendered in an existing customisation (sidebar menu) are now appearing much smaller than they were prior to the upgrade. Our investigation suggests that this can be o...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Drill through filtering improvements between dashboards and reports

There is no option to have the filter on the report be dynamic enough to account for all the data filtering options that the dashboard could potentially send over via the drill. There should be better alignment if we are to use the drill from dash...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Get WKC Metadata in Cognos Reports/Dashboards and during Design

Can we (me and the customers I am working for) have the following possibility: while using Cognos during both Design of Reports and Dashboards, but also during usage (End-Users!), they must have an understanding of the underlying data source and a...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

View Job Step Status As In Cognos 10

This is the same issue as: https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.aha.io/ideas/CA-I-2931 In Cognos 10.2, users had an option to "View the details ... after closing this dialog" when running objects (i.e. reports, views, jobs) in the background. This was es...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Create conditional style on Dashboards.

It is not possible to create conditional style on Dashboards.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration