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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,


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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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System default choice for list view

When looking at team content reports on a list view, you can choose the settings/row size, with options for compact, short, and default. We want to make one the system default. We don't have the option to do so.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Quick Reference Customization

Being able to use the Quick Reference a adjust the contents and links underneath after designing my own extension and theme.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Image in an excel report always adding some white space on the right side.

In report when ever image is used extra white space gets added in the cell. The excel cell should span to the size of the image only.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Add option for user-defined fit line model in visualizations

Currently, we are able to draw fit lines in bubble charts via the Insights menu by enabling the Show fit line option. However, this option chooses the model of the fit line automatically to always be the "best fit" for the data as deemed by Cognos...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

Embed Data In Reports Without Special Coding (i.e. Active Reports)

We would like the ability to embed data In reports WITHOUT having to do special/different/extra development. Right now, in order to do this, you need to use a completely different design paradigm (active reports). Then, if you change your mind and...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Identify the person and date the report design was updated

We have a SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) requirement to validate when a report design was modified and who it was modified by. Currently the modification date is updated each time a new report version is saved. Cognos knows when a report is in design mode a...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Limit Concurrent Sessions per user in Content Store

Limit the amount of cuncurrent sessions a user can log into the content store. This is a security issue if a user can do so too many times
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Support for cognos bridge (IBM Cognos Content Manager)

There seems to be no cognos bridge (IBM Cognos Content Manager). *The bridge is constructed according to the following URL. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6203761 Therefore, I cannot lineage BI reports. I want you to support IBM Cogn...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to disable zooming in report-visualizations

I would like to turn off the visualization zooming feature when using e.g. a barchart-visualization with just a few categories. There are a lot of use-cases in which it is not required to zoom into a chart as a pretty small bar chart turns into on...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics - Dashboard Global parameter does not work

Cognos Analytics does not have feature to apply the global parameters (value prompts, check box etc). Its difficult to use the dashboard in many use case
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration