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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,


Post your ideas

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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Display Text in Crosstab Fact Cell

Currently the Crosstab only supports numerical data which will be summarized for display by dimensions, but in current scenario where there is a lot textual data which needs to be pivoted there needs a way to show them as categories in crosstab
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Assess SQL Server 2019 and Windows Server 2019 for Cognos Analytics compatability

I have looked at all applicable software compatibility reports and the like and can see that Microsoft SQL Server 2019 is not yet supported as a content store or data source (for 11.1.1 and 11.1.4)...and that Microsoft Windows Server 2019 is not y...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 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 ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Create group and role on CA on Cloud Multi-tenant

We cannot create roles or groups at this time. Even though there is no maximum number of users, we are not allowed to group them and manage permissions.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Adjust measure axis scale within dashboard visualizations

Often times values in thousands or millions can make a major impact and to be able to view those variances currently in dashboard visualizations is difficult. This impacts all Cognos end users. Particularly those in finance.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Add exploration mode for OLAP sources

Hello, we would like to leverage the new exploration otpions but they are desined today only for relational sources.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

NoSQL databases support

There are many tools now that use a NoSQL database. In order to integrate with Cognos Analytics the data would need to be migrated to a supported relational database which is time consuming. It would be good if Cognos Analytics was able to genera...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Output tabular data of a query into Excel format

In Cognos BI or versions prior to Cognos Analytics 11.x.x there was the option to run the output of a query during design time into an Excel format which made it easy for developers to see, massage and analyze the data as they go. Even though it i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Find query subjects/items

Non-trivial packages (not the samples) have many query subjects and query items. Users creating or editing reports can get overwhelmed and frustrated trying to find data.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Delivered

Reorder Tabs on Dashboard

Users would like the ability to re-order tabs on the dashboard. A new tab can be added to the dashboard but it is added at the end of the existing tabs and cannot be moved.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered