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


ADD A NEW IDEA

Cognos Analytics

Showing 3687

Ability to edit Tooltips more easily (Dashboards and Reports)

Would like the ability to more easily edit tooltips in reporting and dashboarding. Currently you can add HTML items and javascript to add more to tooltips, however it would be nice if this was an out of the box feature.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Cognos Audit Content

Enhance the delivered Audit content to better handle common audit situations. #1 - make counting unique report runs easierFor example: COGIPF_RUNREPORT has multiple rows in it for each report run, if the report has prompt pages. So: add something ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to configure Search to return exact matches

Add the option to turn off natural language searching from Search. This should work similar to a "contains" search. Currently it can be very difficult to get to exactly what you want as objects that are similar to the search criteria are displayed.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to refresh Schedules/Subscriptions status page

Customer in distribution market has requested multiple times for ability to refresh the status of current schedules/subscriptions/reports in the My Schedules and Subscriptions pages. This would be a refresh on the status of a task and not refreshi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Name of relative times in the Query using dynamic cubes

When using the relative times from a dynamic cube, the name of the period doesn't change in the query. The report show the right period when running the report, but it shows the period from the time of the report building date.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to use custom Oracle functions in Data Module

Framework Manager has the ability to import custom Oracle functions to the model. These functions can then be used as filters or as columns in reports to either limit the data returned or to return additional information as a column when the repor...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Reporting filters to use Prompt Info properties from Framework Manager

We want the filter functionality (not just generated prompts) in Reporting to use the Prompt Info properties - Prompt Type, Display Item Reference, Use Item Reference, and Filter Reference. As we try to move our users off of Query Studio, using Re...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Mapping Enhancements

We need some enhancements to the mapping functionality of Cognos. Tools such as PowerBI have plugins to Esri that allows many GIS functionality to be done in the dashboards.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

SQL Generated by Data Module - Pull only those fields used in a query, similar to how packages work.

When creating reports against a data module, the SQL generated pulls all the fields from the table(s) used in the query. This is not ideal, as it is inefficient, and there are certain data types, such as bits, that cause issues in data modules. It...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement to IPPA tool to capture performance metrics behind report executions. Ref - Jijiang (George) Xu

1. IPPA does not capture detailed performance metrics for CQM Queries Vs DQM Queries 2. RQPPreparingCursorForDataFetching and RQPPreparingCognosSQL are two actions that take most UDA/data access time. George thought it would be good to break the q...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.