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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

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  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

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512 VOTE

Drop Downs in Dashboard in Cognos Analytics 11

In Cognos Analytics 11 at the moment we can drag an item to the dashboard and it creates a hierarchy that can be selected from to change data. If we can change this to a drop down, similar to what can be done on report studio prompt pages, then it...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 8 Delivered
363 VOTE

Ability to expand and collapse a grouped list or crosstab

I would love to see the ability to expand and collapse groups in lists specifically, but also crosstabs. Only the summary information for those groups would be shown, much like what is shown by default when summaries are added to the list group fo...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered
274 VOTE

Resume publishing a fix list with each release

Please resume publishing a fix list with each release of Cognos Analytics. It's my understanding from the linked forum post this was discontinued with v11.0.12. https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/question/0D50z000056cLdVCAU/fix-list-for-11012 The fix...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered
273 VOTE

Dashboard - Combination Chart with More Options

The most used chart type on Cognos reports is the combination chart where multiple columns and lines are sharing the same axis. Currently Dashboard only supports one column and one line on different axis and different scale and this really prevent...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered
247 VOTE

Support for Microsoft Edge Browser

Client would like to know if Microsoft Edge Browser will be supported by Cognos 10.2.2 release or any future release and what are the timelines for its support ?
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered
230 VOTE

Customization of new Homeview screen

We have more than 3 clients currently asking and wanting to customize their home screen in Cognos Analytics. The new default (11.0.7+) has additional "tiles" that show recently ran reports and a quick links section at the right that shows some IBM...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Delivered
181 VOTE

Allow Search requests to be constrained to a folder

As in Cognos 10, allow a search request to be constrained to only those objects that exist in a folder and its sub-folders.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered
174 VOTE

Zero/Null Suppression to Dashboard Widgets

Please add zero / null suppression option to Cognos Analytics Dashboards similar to Reports context menu option.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered
170 VOTE

Conditional Formatting on Dashboard Visualizations

Using Dashboards in Cognos Analytics, enable the capability to apply conditional formatting to dashboard visualizations (charts, summaries, and other visualizations, not just grids).
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Delivered
157 VOTE

Create Read-Only Dashboard Security Option

Have the ability to give consumers read-only access to dashboards. So: view and run, interact with existing prompts, but NOT create or edit.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered