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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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Expand existing Theme Elements

Currently Themes only allow to modify the UI with some basic parameters - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ag_manage.doc/c_ag_manage_themes.html In addition you can create extensions to apply further ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Bullet Chart Modifications

The latest version of the bullet chart in 11.1 has been modified to allow for repeating columns or rows based on a category which is great. However there are a number of problems with the chart that we would like to see changed to better meet the...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Empty date prompt

At the moment it is not possible to create a date prompt of the prompt page that has an empty value as default. It shows always the actual date when no default value is set or when the default value is empty.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Format Axis Min Max

We request the ability to change the min and max boundaries of each axis.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

prompt select and search option of search

I want to set the default option for search example "contains.." not "starts with.."
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dashboard: How to set the column width of the table freely.

The width of columns cannot be set freely in the table for dashboard. If that is possible, valuable space can be effectively utilized.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release

Permanent Hide the filters in a Dashboard for end user

End users not to be able to implement filters on the data.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Apply Style to Multiple Layout Items and to Local Classes

Restore the Cognos 10 functionality that allowed a report author to pick up styles from one object and then apply to multiple objects. Please also add the ability to pick up styles and then apply to local classes in the report.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to convert a Framework Manager model to a Data Module

Since IBM is not longer planning updates/improvements to Framework Manager and instead focusing on Data Modules, users should have a way to convert a Framework Manager model to a Data Module. Ideally this would be functionality offered by IBM and ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Run schedule once option

Run schedule once option is not available for Users My schedules and activity management.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release