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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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.

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Cognos Analytics

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Searchable tree prompt

It is a common pain point to navigate hierarchies in order to select elements for reporting. The tree prompt is the only prompt object that properly displays hierarchical information. However, it lacks a search feature leading to excessive time sp...
about 21 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - remove ambiguous column names

When you create a drill through definition within a dashboard you map a column used in the dashboard to a parameter within the report. Within an enterprise data model you often have multiple instances of columns with the same names - for example a...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - use datasource data items, not just fields in visuals

When creating a dashboard drill through definition you can only easily use data items that on visualisation to pass through to report parameters. When you have lots of navigation paths it isn't easy to pass through all the appropriate data items t...
about 4 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Reset Dashboard - remove colour consistency, orphaned drill throughs, navigation path etc

Developers have accidentally released dashboards with drill down filters applied. Developers are seeing duplicate data item names in drill thru definitions.
about 4 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Capturing Upload/Download Activities in Cognos 11 Audit Database

We would like to request the ability to capture detailed logs of upload and download activities within the Cognos 11 environment. Specifically, we are interested in tracking when a user uploads or downloads report outputs or files.
about 20 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Option to add a grand total in Dashboarding in a list or crosstabb visual

In the Cognos dashboarding module I use the table or Crosstabb visual. I plot there for example the top 10 customers that purchased the most. I have multiple coloms in there, like customer name and city. I want to know the total amount. So I want ...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Change/Update ownership of Schedules to Service Accounts

We would like the ability to change or update the ownership of schedules to service accounts. By default they are owned by the creator, however this leaves a single source of failure if the person would leave. Also when creating scheduled emails, ...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 3 Submitted

Report Queries Page should have a better way of organising queries, for example folders

An enterprise report will often contain many many queries. There will be the query that provides the actual content of the report, this is an important query/queries. But there are often lots of queries that could be thought of as noise - for exam...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Under review
697 VOTE

Send Email on Report Failure

We need an email sent to the report author when a scheduled report fails. This way, we could re-run the report or research the failure.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 11
697 VOTE

More Properties/Editing options for Rave 2 Visualizations

We would like more properties/editing options implemented into the new Rave 2 Visualizations (custom palettes specifically). Also would like to have the ability to add conditional formatting or a conditional palette to a visualization.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

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