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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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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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Show/Hide Last Modified Date for folders within Team Content/My Content

Need to capability to show/hide the last modifed date of folders within Team Content and My Content
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to customize error messages presented in Cognos

We would like the ability to create custom error messages that are more intuitive rather than the default Cognos error message. (e.g. : Error Occurred! Please contact Support team.) The existing error messages are confusing to business users and ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Improve Data Module references in reports

Currently, when selecting an item from a data module, the following "link" to that item is made: [C].[C_<datamodule_name>].[QUERYSUBJECT].[ITEM] However, the moment the data module is renamed, the report breaks.. To avoid compatibility issue...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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...
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

Schedule FAP data mart start / stop and update structure

Functionality to schedule FAP update structure and full publish ( data mart start and stop). Currently user need to regularly go to FAP client and click update structure. Case Number: TS000073673
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Simple member-driven calculations in Dashboards

Currently we are able to create calculations in dashboards based on measures. This is fine if I'd like to know "Revenue - Product Costs". But what about "2012-2011" or "% deviation of Q3/2012 to Q4/2012"? There's no way to create calculations base...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Advanced Search

Would like to have the ability to do advance searching on Cognos Analytics. Right now, search is limited to just the name. Going forward, we would like to be able to search description and objects within reports, queries, and dashboards to be able...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 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

Enable the addition of users through the PAW front end.

It is not currently possible to add users to the TM1 DB without resorting to writing TI Scripts when managing the TM1 DB through the PAW front end. Whilst the TI process itself is fairly straightforward, many TM1 administrators are non technical a...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration