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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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Dynamic cubes with calculated measures in dashboard

I would like to be able to use calculated measures from a dynamic cube in dashboarding 11.x.x.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Visualization: Able to assign colors to Attibutes

Being that the new Dashboard in V11 is interactive. Clicking on a specific area of a visualization act as a filter to the other visualizations within the dashboard. And you color palettes are sorted by the metric value. So when you pick a value (a...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restore ability to apply the "Set as home" feature to folders

Please restore the ability to set a folder as home using the "Set as home" feature. Currently, this feature only applies to objects like reports and dashboards. This feature was available for folders in versions prior to Cognos Analytics.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Zero suppression in a report using a data module

When a report is using a data module as source, zero suppression is only applicable via the query. If the report is running against a package instead, there is an additional icon on the toolbar to directly filter zero values in the report view. Th...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 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...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Provide Export/Report of customized Features

Need an method to compare the customized Features between environments (Dev/QA/Prod). Currently, updating Features (Manage --> Accounts --> Cognos.... then under group properties, Customization tab, Features) is a manual process and must be ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improvements to Assistant AI

I feel the assistant is a step in the right direction, but there is much that can be done to improve the experience. Instead of relying on specified data sets, I'd like to define a series of default datasets that should be used unless otherwise sp...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Content Store database to be stored in Always On High Availability SQLServer.

Please support the Content Store DB within SQL Server Always On - High Availability. We have proved this does work using MSSQL JDBC driver 6.4, on Cognos Analytics 11R11, however it should be supported officially by IBM.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add comments/hints to report elements in report author

While developing a report, Funcional requirements, meeting’s annotations and such are documented, but it would much easier and better documented if present in the report’s specification. This resource is also more important if client uses any kind...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Cognos 12 GUI: Cannot highlight group/user name, report or folder and copy the name in the portal

Horrible Cognos 12 GUI: Cannot highlight group/user name and copy. It is an image. With Cognos 11 we at least had a backdoor option of using the ‘classic’ view (Cognos 7-10 versions) and could highlight and copy security groups and users.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted