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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

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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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New Visualization showing a chart, e.g. a bar/ clustered bar, with a crosstab below

Would it be pssible to loog an enhancement request with IBM to add a visualization which shows a chart, e.g. a bar/ clustered bar, with a crosstab below showing the chart figures and allowing the crosstab to line up with the chart?
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Agent shouldn't run email Task if any of its Previous- Run a report(Task) failed.

Ex: Agent for weekly reports. The above agent has 3 below tasks : Task 1: Run a report : Report A Task 2: Run a report : Report B Task 3: Send an email: Attach output of report A and report B and send to recipients. Issue: If task 1 executed succe...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Search All My Content Folders with Search Engine in Cognos 11

Would it be possible to have the Cognos 11 search engine look in everone's My Content folder to find objects. Right now, it can only searh Team Content and my own My Content.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add LDAP Group Filters in Cognos Configuration

Please Allow us to Add LDAP Filter at Groups Level too. Currently, we are seeing all the Groups in LDAP which is slowing down the Cognos Login and Report Execution times, We have 10,000 Groups in LDAP and every time when user login to Cognos or pe...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Count Distinct in tables in Dashboard

When I use a calculation with a count distinct within a table in a dashboard, the summary does not show up. It comes up as "N/A". The summary should be calculated with a count distinct.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

add permissions for a group or role in order to see a specific folder when logging in Cognos analytics

For example, folder A contains the reports and the folder B contains the package of the reports. We want that any users who belongs to a specific group or role come directly to folder A when connecting to Cognos via Gateway URI and that they are n...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard: No Limit on displaying data values in the list on filter.

Currently in dashboard, there is a limit of displaying all data values in list on filter.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Dashboard: Conditional Coloring based on a Data value such as products or items

To keep all the parameters and criteria in a database (Dynamic) not static like all other BI products Can't believe all these conditional formatting are still static
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Data format in Datamodules

I am looking for a feature to change the dataformat of the columns in Data modules.For example: I have create a calculation and it's default format is Decimal. I want to change the format to percentage.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Schedules delivered to API urls and ftpd to third party servers

Currently schedules can be uploaded to Cognos servers only and emailed. There is ask from customers who want to go get Reports delivered /uploaded to their company servers and APIs
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration