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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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Unable to convert the crosstab reports to charts

We are unable to Convert the existing Crosstab report to any Chart using Change Chart Type option/Change Visualization option from Demand tool bar as we are unable to view the charts under Demand tool bar's Change Chart Type/Change Visualization i...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multilingual Reports

Hi Team, Is there any way to check which all reports use multinational languages? Like I need to get list of all the reports which are using report language variable with multiple languages. I need to check this for around 5000 reports which can b...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Graphs by MetricStudio is not accessable by users of other domain in AD - PMR 27494,100,83

in a global Cognos BI platform with users accessing via different domains and therefore different gateways as e.g. http://***:80/cognos/cgi-bin/ http://***:80/cognosINT/cgi-bin/
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

option to sort Waterfall by greatest change value

Using the Waterfall visualization, there is not a good way to sort the sub-categories. More specifically, if you are using a "Change" Waterfall which calculates variances, you must recalculate the variance manually if you wish to sort the sub-cate...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request IBM Cognos Analytics Office Integration_Nested Charts in Crosstab

Using the IBM Cognos Analytics MS Office Integration, Charts can be importet and refreshed in MS Office (e.g. PowerPoint Slides). Nested Objects in the Crosstab such as Images (used for Conditional Stiles) and Charts ("Sparklines") are ignored a...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add BlackBerry wrapper to Cognos Mobile app.

Our company utilizes the BlackBerry wrapper on mobile apps to give them access to our internal network. We do not use VPN on mobile devices. We would like IBM to wrap the Cognos Mobile App with the BlackBerry wrapper.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Remove options for functionality Save on external Filesystem

We are offering customers to provide Reports via A2A which they have to store on the filesystem. Unfortunately many customers are using the standard report name to store the reports on the filesystem with the usage of 'replace existing files'. Due...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Send Scheduled reports with attachments to external emails

Currently in Cognos the ability to send to external emails(emails with no access to Cognos) is used and needed to send to outside vendors reports needed to conduct our business. We need this continued in version 11.1 moving forwards
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set the same Group Span for multiple columns in List object in Report Studio

currently in report studio of Cognos, there is no way to highlight multiple columns and set the same group span. have to high light each column and click on the group span and select multiple time. This is very annoying and not user friendly, grea...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Deal with NULL values

I know that NULL values are never used in a DWH, as NULL is a non present value... however, we all know that there are some old bad ptractices where NULLs were used, and we the BI analysts have to deal with it... in this case, whenever a memeber s...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration