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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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In "My schedules and subscriptions," display the current enable/disable status as selected by the user

In My schedules and subscriptions, if you enable/disable the schedule from ... (More), and then Properties or Modify Schedule, the status does not update in the list of schedules/subscriptions. However, when you click ... (More) and then Enable/Di...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include Accounting Format for currency values

Like the Currency format, the Accounting format is used for monetary values. But, this format aligns the currency symbols and decimal points of numbers in a column. In addition, the Accounting format displays zeros as dashes and negative numbers i...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Summary - detailed visualization in the visualization map

Summary - detailed visualization in the visualization map
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Cognos Analytics Support for AIP (Azure Information Protection)

Azure Information Protection (AIP) is a cloud-based solution that enables organizations to discover, classify, and protect documents and emails by applying labels to content. AIP is part of the Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) solution, and ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 2 Future 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...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Notification that test button in "Test Connection" has been clicked and is currently testing.

In IBM Cognos administration portal, under the configuration tab, data source connections, under a data source's connection properties, connection tab, test the connection link, it would be nice if the "Test" button was disabled after clicking it ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to sort on Subtotals and Totals

Dynamic Sorting on Subtotals and Totals
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need ability to hide default palette in charts

Currently setting a conditional palette in the chart still leaves default palette showing in the legend. We ask to either have some kind of ability to manually hide the default palette or make it be hidden automatically when the conditional palett...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Calling External URL to retrieve Image allow call through default Proxy

An image is embedded in a report the url is added to retrieve the image from an external server. The image is not returned using format PDF or EXCEL. Please refer to Case number TS012847462. This is the issue; when using HTML output, Cognos render...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Expose capability/customization for report delivery options

We would invite to have an option to hide/show per user role/group delivery options when running in background, so that we have option to deactivate local save or deactivate send via email if we need to plus option to change the default selection ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration