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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


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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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Cognos Analytics connectivity to Informatica Data Vault

We are looking to connect to Informatica Data Vault to build some reports in Cognos Analytics
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Conditional Palette /Legend Charts

In Pie /Bar chart Conditional Palette applied and it’s working as expected, but somehow the legend is not able applied the same color whatever color pie slice ,and to show legend on slice other than option "All around the pie / Left and Right pie"...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Multi Select Cascaded Prompt Feature on Report Output Page

To give you a background, we want multi select cascaded prompts on top of the same report output page in Cognos Viewer without the need to introduce re-prompt button (or) any other built in tool options within the product. We used Java Scripts to ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Series Option in the Pie chart in RA in Cognos 11

Add Series Option in the Pie chart in RA in Cognos 11
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

scheduling administrative tasks

Possibility to e.g. schedule restart of dispathers. schedule refresh report server connections
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Crosstab - Ability to rename 'Summary' row

For certain crosstabs, the aggregate or 'Summary' row as it is labelled is not always the ideal wording for the aggregate, and we have had users asking if it could be renamed in instances to 'Total' for example. This would be helpful from a usabil...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Digitally signing email

Provide the capability to digitally sign email sent from the IBM Cognos Analytics environment. Digitally signed email assures the recipient of the email's origin and legitimacy. this is especially important when sending email that contains attachm...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Control Record Counts in Report Preview Mode

When building reports in preview mode, you cannot control the number of records returned. When a user develops a report against a large table (100K+) the time to see updates and the taxing of the database server can be extreme.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Snap to align all dashboard widgets with a single action

Dashboards can have numerous widgets of varying dimensions on a tab. It can be very time consuming for a dashboard author to make the dashboard look polished because it requires adjusting individual widgets to ensure that widgets are elegantly ali...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

capabilities option for saving to external file system.

We have jobs that save to an external file location and then automation, but had users also saving to this location who should not be allowed to. It caused errors with automation. There is no option to stop users from doing this.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration