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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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drop downs/checkbox/radio prompts in dashboards like we have in report studio which improves user interface and space can be utilized

drop downs/checkbox/radio prompts in dashboards like we have in report studio which improves user interface and valuable space can be utilized.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Need more legend controls like when you have two legends of two data points provide show/hide individual legends and renaming the lengthy legends to short

Need more legend controls like when you have two legends of two data points provide show/hide individual legends and renaming the lengthy legends to short.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove the option of Classic View from Cognos Analytics for all users

There is an option to go to Classic View when creating a schedule. We need to remove this option since the Classic View UI has the look and feel of Cognos 10 and can be confusing to some of the users. Moreover all the functionality in classic view...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Prompt Pages does not look same as 10x version

Multi select value prompt is not behaving as expected when there are default values mentioned.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support lines in the visualization map in Cognos

Tableau has the functionality to easily upload a shape file in mapbox and visualise on a map the rivers,.... When selecting in a table a certain river, the river on the map in mapbox is highlighted. The opposite is also possible, when selecting a ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

User Membership Summary

It would be of tremendous benefit to be able to see, for an object of type user, role or group, a summary of all the roles and groups to which the object belongs. It actually seems pretty odd that this functionality apparently does not exist out o...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Tenant Export Feature Enhancements

The current tenant export feature does not export users "My Folders" i.e. their personal folders and schedules. The feature will export Cognos Custom Security roles which are in the Cognos namespace but does not include the membership of these roles.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

How to Change text of summary

Hi, I have a requirement where user would like to change the text of summary (which displays at last for list and crosstab report) to total or any any other meaningful name based on the ouput during the creation of dashboard. However, we have the ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Filtertext should be formatable

The query filter text object should have style and format properties like other text elements.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Arrays in Cognos

Per IBM, currently it does not support data type of arrays...In some complex data models we need this type of data type to be supported by cognos for reporting...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration