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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


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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Allow sort by column measure of crosstab on a dashboard

The Crosstab visualization on a dashboard does not allow for sorting based on the measures displayed in a column.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

AI Assistant should be applied to user work flow, not just data

The AI assistant should be able to look at what a user is commonly doing within Cognos and suggest better ways of doing it. It should work with the user to set up these suggestions. Cognos is a complicated product, and users don't often use it the...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Expand Search in Data Module

When editing a data module, there is a search bar at the top of the source tree. When I type into that box, it returns only items that contain a match in the Label property. Sometimes it is desirable to be able to search for the name from the sour...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Drill through from report to dashboard

Our business users like controllers want to make detailled analyses if they find extraordinary values in standard reports. Therefore we want to create enriched self service data modules for them which they can analyse with the dashboard tool by dr...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Color Consistancy in graphs in Reporting

In Reporting we make use of graphs. In a report we have multiple graphs on category, but the colors of the bars do not match in the graphs. We need the colors to be consistent, so every category has the same color in the same graph on the report. ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Include Dashboards in Framework Manager function "Analyse Publish Impact"

Currently the Framework Manager function "Analyse Publish Impact" just scans reports for changed objects in the model.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Import SQL COMMENT ON in data modules

Increasing size and complexity of data sources increase the demand for easy-to-handle metadata information. Descriptions directly implemented in source database objects are also useful for data modelers and report & dashboard authors. SQL COMM...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

How to show the Report or folder description in the Cognos 11 portal

How to show the Report or folder description in the Cognos 11 portal (instead of has to go to the properties by clicking the ellipsis on right (3 dots). )? With Cognos 10 you were able to show the report description in the portal by setting prefer...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Offer the same options for shortcut like for report (for example Create report view)

In Cognos 10.2 you have option like Create report view, Edit report, ... directly for shortcut. Now in Cognos 11 this options are available only for report itself.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Option to view Cube viewer and browse in classic mode(Like how it is in TM1 Architect/TM1 Perspectives) for PAw and PAx

This will be a good option for user adaptation from the TM1 Architect or TM1 Perspectives to the future tool IBM Planning Analytics Workspace(PAw) and IBM Planning Analytics for Excel(PAx). It simply provides an ease of user interface into TM1 Cub...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted