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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).


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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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To have numerical filters like 'greater than', 'between',etc., for fields of type Integer on Dashboard

Problem Statement: We see String based filters like "Contains", "Equals", "Starts with" etc., for a field which is of Integer Data Type on the Dashboard. Steps To Reproduce : Drag the integer field to any Visualization in the dashboard and try fil...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Deployment of Individual Data Modules

Problem: You cannot select Datamodules individually for exporting/deployment. The only option is to select a folder. This creates problems if you have a central Packages/Data module location for you business users. You cannot deploy a single or mu...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

"Modification date and time" changes every time a report is just run and not saved

In Cognos 11.0.7 Environments , the "Modification date and time" changes every time a report is just run and not saved. Ideally the date and time should change only after some modifications to the report are done and save button is clicked
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Link to Source Report for Report Views

Link to source report from report views has been removed. We use lot of report views with set prompts and do change these prompjt values from time to time also point report views to other reports when a newly developed report is to used.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Files Limits Configurable per user group

Within Cognos 11, you can identify a size limit per upload and a max size limit per user. However, if you modify these limits, you are affecting all users of the environment who can upload files. Ideally, it would be helpful for some users that be...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

"No Data" option on Dashboard visualisations

We need the ability to display something more intuitive to users if filtering a dashboard makes a visualisation return "No Data".
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add nested menu items for the actions menu

At the moment any menu item added to com.ibm.bi.contentApps.listViewMenu will appear as an additional row. There is a finite amount of space. I'd like to have an option to add nested menu items where clicking the row would open additional menu ite...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Support for Cognos Analytics to be in-line with Chrome's security changes to cookie handling

https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/blog/cookie-countdown-2023oct?hl=en As per the above article, Google aims to make a change in Chrome to restrict cookies when used as a third-party. This impacts Cognos as Cognos is often used by enter...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Upgrades: Stop schedules upon import but not disable

Upon import, allow the administrator to turn off all schedules to prevent them from running in two locations at the same time (the old instance and the new). This is most relevant when upgrading. Note, this must be a separate option than enable/di...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rows Per Page - Configuration of Default Property

Rows per page property is set to a default 20 rows per page in lists, crosstabs, and other reporting objects. 20 is a very low number causing users frustration and many paginations. Other solutions provided thus far do not set the global value, ra...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration