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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:


Search existing ideas

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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Guage Chart with single value and capability to custom color it

Need guage chart with single color so we can color it based on a metric % and the color palette can be custom as well. Many of our customers are demanding that for reports and dashboards.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

ability to lock a dashboard or view only mode

Within our company, we have many power users with strong analytical skills that are making dashboards for key managers and decision makers. However, these dashboards cannot be locked and many individuals have changed an analysts work without even ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Custom sort in dashboard properties

Ability to custom sort for use in filters, charts and all visuals
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Reactivate change package funtionality using the properties

Cognos analytics does not offer the option to change a package using just the properties windows (Package is shown, but no option to change the package). This option was available in Cognos 10.X and is also available by using the legacy UI.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered
144 VOTE

More than one Data Module to be included in one report

Can't use more than one Data Module in a report
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Include Performance Details for CA11 Dashboards

CA11 Report Studio reports have a check box under run options to include performance details in the output. This allows users to validate how long queries take to assess data source and data base performance. This capability does not seem to exist...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

C11 Reporting, have users default to off for automatic group and summary behavior for list

For C11 Reporting we would like to set the default to NOT automatically group and summary behavior for lists. Currently the default is to HAVE automatic group and summary for lists. C10 the default was NOT to have automatic group and summary for l...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Sizing of crosstab and tables in dashboards

You should make customization of text in crosstabs and tables in Dashboarding possible. Right now they often take way too much room when included in dashboards. Would really like to be able to set font size, padding and other so the tables could b...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Added new column/field into source file(.xls) then uploaded into CA but changes not retrieving in Data module

Created Data Module by using excel files. Added new column/field into source files(.xls) then uploaded into cognos analytics but changes not retrieving into Data module. We need this functionality to avoid recreate Data module because we receive f...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Auto Sort Date Fields

Auto sort date fields such as; Month Name, Day of Week. Ascending & descending typically does not make sense.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered