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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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Exclude hidden modules/data sets/packages from search in Dashboards

Dashboards include a search feature that gives users ability to use natural language to scan the content store for data sources that might contain information to answer a question of what is needed for a dashboard. This search should exclude hidde...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Removing the dataset upload size limit.

Etisalat wants to migrate their dashboards and reports to Cognos Analytics but are restricted by the dataset size limits.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data Module, diagram view - show additional information for a relation

for an faster and better overview within the diagram view of a Data Module, the key values of a join should be shown without clicking the relation line between the tables.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to use custom fonts in Cognos Analytics On Demand

Many times customers want to customize report look and feel to corporate standard. Fonts are one part of that. At the moment in Cognos Analytics On Demand there is no possibility to load custom fonts that corporate is using.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Remove option to print a report output

Currently we offer Cognos as a service. The client subscribes to our product and can use Cognos as their analytics offering. Because the service is physically hosted by us, the idea of printing on a printer connected to the network that the server...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

dashboard show filter

insert in the dashboards the ability to view the value of the filter applied as in the report studio, without the need to click on the funnel
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Collapsible hierarchy prompt into new Dashboard

Tree prompt is a great way to explore and filter hierarchies, but the current hierarchy prompt does not function well with large hierarchies, because you can not collapse hierarchy branches. Please provide collapsible hierarchy prompt
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Two Factor Authentication

Two Factor Authentication for Cognos.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Jupyter Notebook

Our team is a data science team and we are using Cognos Analytics to provide analytics to our clients. We do several data quality metrics using Jupyter Notebook and we would like to make it available to our clients in a dynamic mode in Cognos. We ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Ability save filtered interactive report to xls or pdf

We embed cognos report within our portal page (.NET) and so the cognos toolbars are hidden and only way to export the report output is to use a drillthrough link to export report to appropriate output format. The drillthrough report unfortunately ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration