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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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Possibility to hide a column in the Dashboard tables

To be able to sort a table by a column which is not visible. This is sometimes required by users eg. when there is need to have table sorted by a specific column but its values are not wanted to be shown for various reasons (they want to have as s...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Customize data labels on dashboard

We would like the ability to change the label of a data item that is displayed on the dashboard the way we can change the label in the report authoring environment. This will authors to create cleaner looking dashboards when using data items that ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Support Multlingual labels for data items.

Our clients are multilingual and we would like the ability to support multiple languages in a data module to leverage its many advantages over framework packages.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1

create Planning Analytics queries in reporting and data modules using custom MDX

The custom SQL object is useful in reporting and data modules for creating tables from relational sources using raw query language. The same could be said for the custom MDX object, but this does not support the Planning Analytics data source conn...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add Comboboxes as new prompting control

This is a request of a new Prompting control which is a combination of the existing text box prompt (type-in), value prompt (drop down) and search & select prompt. The user should be able to select a value within the text box. A source / stati...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make Watson Analytics for Social Media data available in Cognos Analytics

It would be great to be able to use the Social Media data currently available in Watson Analytics for Social Media, as a data source in Cognos Analytics.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Include interactive report runs in Past Activities Cognos Administration list

In Cognos Administration, the Past Activities list currently only shows previous report runs run in the background, while the Current Activities list has the option to show either Background activities or Interactive activities. As an administrato...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Dashboard Responsive Template

A self Dashboard needs to display properly at any browser width. This can be achieved by dynamically updating the layout of UI components, shrinking the size of UI components, and/or toggling which UI components are visible on the page. The user s...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to define range for the Colors within Dashboard Color Palette

Currently Color Palette for the Dashboard Visualizations allows to define Custom Colors (along with the predefined Color Palettes available) with Low to High range of values but cannot define what the Low and High Values are.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Support for database images in Cognos Reports

Our oracle database tables include images stored as BLOB or VARBINARY datatypes. We would like to show these images in a Cognos List Report, to be displayed with rest of data. This functionality needed by multiple county departments.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration