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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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Have Abbreviation option in Report's chart like in Dashboard

Cognos Analytics - Have Abbreviation option in Report's chart like in Dashboard. In Report, When values in chart get over 5 digits, they become to small and hard to see. Especially in Pie Chart. The size of the chart also shrinks when changing "La...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

In Dashboards provide Buttons for custom Navigation between tabs and possible other Actions

The User experience in a Multi Tab dashboard can be much improved with on screen buttons rather than tab names. This would provide for a more tailored and user/company specific design (only if required). Too often a prepared design (wireframe or s...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Audit Database access in Cognos Cloud installation

Fir Customers using Cognos in IBM's Cloud environment. the Audit database can only be accessed from within the application. resulting in not being able to use the Audit extension package or use any other software directly against the Audit Databas...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Make MRU (most recently used) Refresh Time Shorter or Configurable

We have found the MRU list, most recently used, is not reliably updated if the browser is closed without explicit log off from Cognos.The sync by the system every 5 minutes does work well. It would be helpful if this sync was more often or could b...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Making Alignment of page headers of list reports same for all pages in pdf

Makes the report neat.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Make it easier when using of Report Variables

In cognos 10, when you were conditionally formatting an object across multiple values -- it was relatively easy to turn on the functionality for each value -- and it was relatively easy to turn it off or revert to the Default/Other value (by doubl...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Searchable Tree Prompt

Either extend existing Tree Prompt or add a new insertable object that allows for text searching of elements in a tree prompt.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to delete a data source in reporting tool

In C11R9 dashboarding tool we have the ability to delete the datasource of a dashboard. We would like to have this ability in the C11 Reporting tool -(ylp)
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Active reports .mht viewing alternative

With IE not supported soon, allow any browser to view standalone active reports
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Need connector to connect to the splunkbase

Need to upload cognos logs to splunkbase
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Not under consideration