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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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Support public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) managed database services for content/audit stores

Currently, if we opt to use one of the public cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP) to host Cognos Analytics Local, we are required to provision a self-managed database host and database in order to host the Cognos Analytics content stores. This limits ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

My Activities & Schedules

in 24X7 world and role/group based security, My Activities & Schedules functionality is missing for groups. If Person1 & person2 belong to groupA in cognos security(Namespace). They should be able to see Activities & schedules of group...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

R Integration in Cognos Analytics

Similar to Jupyter notebook support, It would be great to have R support in Cognos. Capability to process R Script using data sources in Cognos Parameters could be passed into R Script via Prompt for e.g. user can choose x periods history to fore...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Reset Dashboard - remove colour consistency, orphaned drill throughs, navigation path etc

Developers have accidentally released dashboards with drill down filters applied. Developers are seeing duplicate data item names in drill thru definitions.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Feature to hide output format from 'Run as' screen

Currently the features to hide output formats (such as Excel and Excel data) via the role customizations are applicable only to the toolbars within the viewer screens. Even though Excel data is removed for a role, the Run as screen still shows tho...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Create a join in a report, when having multiple datamodules added to the report

We are developing a report with multi pages and add multiple datamodules. We create a fine and nice looking dashboard (using a report). I have multiple datamodules added, for example HR and Finance. For some Finance graphs, we need to make a join ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

IBM to look for trigger file when placing Cubes in sFTP site to avoid Cube files from being separated during transfer

Originally had this case open: TS001299703 So basically, we are trying to build cubes here in onPrem Transformer, sFTP to IBM so they are available in the CA11 Prod Cloud environment each day. The sFTP steps are proving to be the bottleneck becaus...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add line graph to stacked bar chart visualization

Stacked bar chart visualization is highly used to show absolute dollars. Ability to add line graph to stacked bar chart visualization will allow an effective visual to show period to period changes across the absolute numbers, as an example
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filters for Mobile Dashboard

At the moment, it is very easy to create filters on desktop for different metrics on a page level dashboard. Unfortunately, the page-wide applied filters doesn't affect the metric when viewed on the mobile app - IBM Cognos Analytics Mobile. It wou...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Customize Dasboard Map Layers, Boundaries, etc.

Not having the ability to customize the city/county/etc. 'library' of the dashboard map severely limits its usefulness. Case #TS000146878
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration