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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


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


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Cognos Analytics

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Sort visualizations by data not shown on the visualization similar to Report Studio

When using a relational model with a time query subject the the month query item (which contains only the month name) is sorted on the visualizations alphabetically. In Report Studio we are able to specify that the sort is based on our month epoch...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatically reorder time categories on bar/column forecasts

The forecasting capability in Cognos 11.1.4 is awesome, and the fact that it automatically orders time categories chronologically rather than alphanumeric is doubly awesome. However it only does this in line charts, not bar/column charts.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Organization methods for extensions

At the moment the extensions appears as a list. When you have dozens of extensions it can be painful to find any specific extension. I'd like to add tags to extensions that will allow the admin to filter the list. I see it as being part of the spe...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Data module: Sorting of query subjects and query items

Add sorting possiblity for query subjects and query items in data module editor like it is possible in Framework Manager.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data modules: context explorer

Data modules should have a context explorer like in Framework Manager. This is very useful for complex/bigger models with many relationships.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Filters on Canvas

When creating dashboards in ESA you can add filters to your canvas but have no ability to format the filters to make them easily read or tie in with the format pallet or typeface used on the rest of the dashboard. This means if you resize the filt...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Produce Cognos output in MS Word

Need to be able to run a report in OpenPages, and have the ability to edit it in MS Word. We currently have a report designed that pulls from fields in multiple objects, designed to replicate an Operational Risk - RCSA report we used to produce in...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

schedule deliverer as a property

The user that an email-based schedule is sent from should be a property on the schedule. Currently, the sender of the email is the last user that modified the schedule. This can get confusing as a system admin may add/remove recipients etc on a sc...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Need Refresh icon on My schedules and subscriptions

In Cognos v10 the My schedules and Subscriptions has a refresh icon that is utilized by our company and business partners however, in Cognos v11 this feature has gone away
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Restrict the size for a report output

We need to limit the size of a report output (i.e. pdf, csv, xlsx) to a maximum size. Defined by us. A warning message should be produced for the users in case that the report exceeds this defined limit. Unfortunately this functionality is current...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration