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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


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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 Report : add custom subset to the Source Panel

Custom subset are attached to a report for reuse. Customer wants to have it available in the Source Panel and avoid to retrieve it from another report
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add line graph to stacked bar chart visualization

Stacked bar chart visualization is highly used to show absolute dollars. Ability to add line graph to stacked bar chart visualization will allow an effective visual to show period to period changes across the absolute numbers, as an example
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Freely Move Legends on Visuals (Not specific locations)

Users need the ability to freely move the legend to maximize space when building a dashboards. The do not like being restricted to (top, bottom, left, right) as sometimes there are more ideal legend positions that help to maximize information dens...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Column width in cross tab or list report

Need ability to adjust column width in cross tab or list report
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change/Specify Name of Field in Legend

Lack of customization in RAVE visualizations is a major impediment to adoption. Need the ability to customize the field names within the legend in all of the different visualization templates.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Checkbox field type & assoc. formula in Salesforce need to be able to be visible in Cognos Analytics with a direct connection

We have made a direct connection from Cognos Analytics to Salesforce.com. We are able to see all Salesforce fields in Cognos with the exception of 2 crucial ones that make the connection useless without them. The one field is called NDA_C and is a...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use existing import specifications built in Controller classic also in Controller web

Add the possibility to use existing import specifications built in Controller classic also in Controller web.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Create Schema Based on Shared Container Links

When columns of the Shared Container links do not match the metadata of the stage in the job on mapping it, you should have the option to add the missing columns in the schema.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Excel 2016 in cognos cloud link instead of excel 2013

Upgrade from Excel 2013 to 2016 (when using cognos controller link)
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add version information to "Use this collection in API" drop down

Adding the version information to the drop down would help those moving back and forth between API and tooling.
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration