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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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Ability to create alias tables in data modules

Need the ability to create Alias Tables in Data modules. This is a requirement to effectively use data modules instead of Framework Manager.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Delivered

Package capabilites to deny use of data mondul, data set and dashboard

To able to deny development on a package is very important for security reason. Very often it is complex to build all security into the package, and then we need to put the security into the reports. Doing so we need to security the package so no ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 10 Delivered

Role customization to control features at more granular level

We have extensively used "User Interface Profiles" in Cognos 10.2.2. After upgrading to Cognos Analytics 11 R5, this feature is deprecated and there is no control over providing different reporting capabilities to different user groups based on th...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Separate ability to run dashboard from ability to create dashboard

Modify security for dashboards to allow consumers to be able to run dashboard without granting them access to create dashboards.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Hide Queries option in report studion 11.1+ as it was in all previous versions

ad-hoc users should not have ability create custom SQLs or joins in report studio.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Restore the ability to select a different output format from Cognos Viewer when launched from Reporting (AKA Report Studio)

In older versions of Cognos (v10.2.2 and earlier) when you run a report from Report Studio, in the Cognos viewer on the menu bar, the author can select a different output format than what was initially executed. This is a handy usability feature w...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Cognos 11.0.7 - Ability to hide/edit 'Quick reference' links from Welcome Page.

Links of Quick reference included to the Welcome page are not relevant to our business users - we'd like to be able to hide them or replace with business related references.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Prompts: variable default values

System: Cognos Analytics ReportingActor: User needing a simpler reporting experience Description:Reporting users have a need for reports that are easy to use. Prompt controls allow hard-coded default values. Sometimes the users want default values...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Save to the File System in Cognos Clouds

Current onsite cognos environment allows Save to the file system which is not available in Cognos Cloud environment.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Enhance Focus Mode On Dashboard Widgets

When viewing individual widgets on a dashboard you should be able to go into full Focus Mode enlarging that widget to the full size of the screen.Similar to capabilities in Microsoft Power BI.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered