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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


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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Enable use of waterfall visualisation in Cognos Analytics Dashboard mode

Enable Waterfall visualisation as one of the visualisations types to use within Dashboard mode. Note: This query was initially added as a question on IBM analytics community, and further recommended to add as a RFE.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Add data formatting options for data modules

Need ability to format the fields in data modules.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Improve display of long report names when editing it in Properties

In Properties, when you edit a long report title you can't see the entire report name and must use your cursor to display parts of the name. Our report authors find this frustrating. Please improve the interface to display the entire name when edi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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

Apply drill through to all tabs within dashboard

We have a dashboard where users can do a discovery for new business opportunities. The dashboard has many tabs where each of the tabs represent a use case. We also have a report, which is on transaction level and the user can download it and use ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

CAR11: Missing Union function in the data module

Union function is missing in the data module. how do we combine 2 data sets..one might be a file and another one from FM package.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

allow setting of capability on dashboard module for users

We want to be able to set the capabilities for the dashboard module in a more detailed way: specific groups can only run an existing dashboard (and not change/edit it), others can also change an existing dashboard or create a new one (similar to c...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

DISABLE DEFAULT REPORT AUTHORING TEMPLATES

We use Cognos in such a way that we need to restrict users from creating Active Reports. When you create a New Report, the first screen that displays prompts you to choose a template: Blank report or blank active report. There is no way to disable...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

How to restrict some user 's permission to create custom SQL in report studio but still let the user run existing reports containing custom SQL

We are about to upgrade cognos from 10.2.1 to Cognos Analytics 11.1.3, and plan to give most user capability to access report studio, but we don't want to provide all of them permission to write custom SQL inside report studio, also we want most u...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Add functionality to setup a data module in a way that can be used by multiple clients, each of them having access to a different database

The data module works only for one of the connections, the one that was selected at the moment it is saved. We need to be prompted for the connection instead of saving the connection along with the data module. We need a way to setup a data module...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered