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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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Query focus disappears in design mode

In Report Design select the query option. Click on a query and then click on a query item. At that point if you have 10 queries in the report you can't tell which query you are editing. See Attached.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

OData as a data source for Cognos Analytics

We are deploying a new SAP CRM and SD system, and already have SAP FI/CO. We have, and will extend our OData API on the SAP Gateway. It would be ideal to be able to consume these OData sources in FM and/or lightweight modeling in Cognos Analytics
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Branding

Support multi tenant customers leveraging the same reports. For maintenance and support functionality it would be ideal to color brand the same report (report color pallets, list report headers, report object etc). This will reduce the overhead of...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Expand crosstab visualization conditional formatting

Expand crosstab visualization conditional formatting to include rows or columns included in the crosstab. If the profit( #Vales) is greater than zero AND the line of business(Rows) is camping equipment, then make the value green. Being able to set...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

Implement SSO with AD using SAML 2 for Cognos 10.2.2

We are migrating to Cognos BI 10.2.2 and we need to implement SSO with AD using SAML 2. Will it be possible in the next version of Cognos BI ?
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard, like date was selected for Axis, but to make sorting by sort key is not possible
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capability to modify the top filter bar and font and name in widgets

From our Cognos user feedbacks: we would like to move the top filter bar to the right side of page, plus change the size of filter bar(took to much space on the page). We also need to modify the column name or fonts in each widget. Since the model...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Provide security model for source access in data modules

When creating a new data module, a user is presented with sources that he can pull data from.A security model is required, to enable/disable users to use specific sources or a complete group of sources.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add back Product Language "Slovak" in Cognos Analytis 11.0.13, 11.1* and above

The Cognos Analytics 11.0.13 and 11.1* no longer provide Slovak product language. This is an issue for user who do need their mother language to use the product when their English language is not strong enough. This might cause lose of customer in...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

gnerate alert when report output is not created on file system

When a scheduled job or interactive report is ran and the output is set to file system if the output is not generated or written to the file system there is no notification or alert of an issue.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration