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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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  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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Add Format option to Run Options in Cognos Analytics 11 Report Authoring

Add Format option in the report authoring tools Run Options dialog so user can View Tabular Data in format other than HTML
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to call CA11 Dashboard from another application with parameters

Ability to call CA11 Dashboard visualizations and whole dashboard page as a whole from another application with parameters
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability To Selectively Deploy Data Sources

We need the ability to have project admins (users, not people with SYSADM rights) export specific data sources from one environment to another, and have that respect the defined permissions. So: if a user wants to migrate a Dynamic Cube data sourc...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 year 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 ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set and edit saved parameters on Data Sets

We have a data set that contains prompt parameters to filter the results. We would like to be able to set and edit user saved parameter values without having to edit the data set. Similar to reports and report views, it would be great if we can se...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change search box color

The stark contrast from black to white can be a problem for some users. Suggest allowing ability to customize the background color of the black search box at the top menu bar (11.2.4 version).
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

System default choice for list view

When looking at team content reports on a list view, you can choose the settings/row size, with options for compact, short, and default. We want to make one the system default. We don't have the option to do so.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Copy a tab from one dashboard to a another dashboard

I would like to have an option to copy whole tabs from dashboard 1 to dashboard 2. I know the option pins, but that is only for items. The option copy tabs is necessary for my management dashboards.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Do not require a CAST for BLOB/CLOB content in DQM mode

Currently, we found out that BLOB or CLOB data fields are being automatically cut down to 1024 chars by IBM Cognos when used in reporting, via the new DQM mode. This is unacceptable. A CLOB/BLOB field is used in data warehousing for the exact purp...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration