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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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Automatic deleting filter details in case of deleting the column in Reports

Currently the system continues to keep filter details and applies them even in case when that data element (on which a filter is applied) has been deleted from Report. Users expect to have another logic in accordance to which such filter details w...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Filter details in Reports as a separate window

Users are interested to see the details of filter on a separate window which must be visible by default while creating report (irrespective of design mode or preview mode).
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

SAP HANA via Secure Gateway for CA On Demand

Hi there, I'd like SAP HANA to work like it does for Planning Analytics (SaSS) via Secure Gateway.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Auto-layout feature for model graph in a Data Module

When creating a data module in the new web-based data modeling interface, a graph of the model is shown on the right side of the screen. Currently, there is no way to lay out the model other than manually dragging the tables around. It would be gr...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show All References to a Paramater

Add functionality to identify all references to a paramater within report studio design view.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Setting to control the default option of Conflict Resolution when saving reports to file system

When we save a report to file system, the default option for Conflict Resolution is Replace. Since we want to use the Time Stamp option, we will have to check the option every time. We would like to have a setting that we can set Time Stamp as the...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Wrapping x-axis label on report studio bar charts

Need ability to wrap text on report studio bar chart.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Visualization map - ability hide the lat/long coordinate in the label for a point

Visualization map - ability hide the lat/long coordinate in the label for a point. The lat/long is displayed automatically in the label when hovering over a point. The user want the ability to hide the lat/long in the label.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Move the 'Edit Data Item Label' button left in toolbar. This option is selected many times more than others (such as sort).

In building many reports I must change most of the field labels on the actual report the user gets. I must select the three ellipses and in the drop down select the 'Edit Data Item Label'. This is time consuming. This is used much more often than ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamically Change Dashboard Metrics

Would love the ability to have a way to dynamically change the displayed metrics on dashboard charts using a drop down or list. This way a user could have a list of sale 4 main metrics and be able to change the dashboard on the fly by selecting a ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release