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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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Dashboard - Ability to Modify or Hide the Standard Templates

When you go to create a Dashboard you are presented with a blank template. It has no header/footer on it. As a government agency we need to have specific headers and footers for compliance reasons. You can use the Text Widget to create labels to a...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics and SecureAuth SSO

We require Cognos to allow us login using SecureAuth IdP provider, which uses browser authentication. This is a must for our users to connect to Snowflake from Cognos. At this time, Cognos server does not allow a browser to open and allow the SSO ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Control what to show in on-demand toolbar in Report Studio

Currently the on-demand tool bar in the interactive viewer or the preview mode of the report studio has a good number of options. Most times the users may not need all the options. The favorite options however are sort, filters and aggregate only....
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Customer to expand or compress report widgets in rum time on Dashboards or Report Studio

Some of the customers are looking to have some of the individual widgets or containers to be expanded run time and eventually compress in case the details or the dashboard is expanding beyond the screen width and height
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reading data from message hubs like kafka in reports or dashboards directly

Customer is looking for a functionality to read real time data from their production line into charts directly and then persist in the database.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[MIF] Remove pop-up blocker disabled requirement from product

Pls remove requirement for popup-blocker "disabled".
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable "Reset prompts and run" on a report or folder

TS001246554: Need ability to disable "Reset prompts and run" option on all drill-through reports where the parameters are passed from master reports. Re-setting the prompt page on a drill through report does not yield in easily understood prompt c...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to go ‘Down a level' in Workspace Advanced

Looking for an option to go ‘down a level' in Workspace Advanced similar to what is available in Analysis studio. For example to get all children of 2014, I shouldn't have to click each quarter and expand to get the months. If there was a dimens...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Microsoft Dynamics as a data source

We have a lot of application development be done using Microsoft Dynamics, because Power BI supports Dynamics and the option sets, departments end up using Power BI and Cognos isn't consider as a reporting option even thou we also have Cognos.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Add Hijri calendar support to IBM Cognos Analytics

Enable Hijri ( Um Al Qura ) calendar support in Cognos Analytics: User profile preferences "Calendar type" (like Gregorian and Japanese Imperial) in each of the following: Reporting and Dashboards, the Data format dialog, when formatting as date o...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration