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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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Ability to open more than one job simultaneously

A huge benefit of Cognos Analytics is the ability to open more than one report simultaneously. This isn't working for jobs, so it's difficult when you want compare jobs to each other.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Directory Security

Under 'Team Content' There are various modules that should be limited to certain groups of people within the organization. Following the directions for version 11.1.5 of Cognos Analytics release ; using specific role to limit folders is a great fe...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Data Formatting capabilities for Calculated Time Members

I have created couple of new Calculated members in the time dimension called MTD%Inc and YTD%Inc which calculated the percentage increase in Sales over current year and last year. Which is a percentage value. I would like to change the data format...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Save to Cloud Option not available in Portal Pages in C11.1.5

When I navigate from Team Content to the respective report folder , i see the option "Save to Cloud " when i do a right click > Run in the background > Advanced > Delivery. However, when i navigate through the Portal tab and click on the ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The context menu entries should always be displayed in the same order, whether in the "Manage" or "Team content" area.

In the "Manage" area the entry "Properties" is displayed at the top, while in the "Team Content" area the properties are displayed at the bottom, as in many other programs. Unusual is especially that you find the function "Delete" at the bottom, w...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Need better axis label formatting control

Report authors are unable to control the border around the axis labels.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DQA AGG Advisor: Display Picked Options in Advisor Results

In DQA Aggregate Advisor, display selected options in the Advisor Results.After I run the advisor and look at the results, I don't know what was picked as an option.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove scroll bar within summary table in Dashboard

When Microsoft Edge is used, some of the Summary charts in Dashboard is showing scrollbar which caused UI to be not standardize. The only workaround for this is to resize the charts which is not the ideal way as the object become bigger and does n...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automated log removal within Cognos install directory

Client would like a way to remove older logs automatically from the Cognos install. Ideally they would like to be able to set the maximum size and number of logs like as can be done with the cogserver.log with all other logs such as pogo localhost...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompt page issue when a user makes a selection on a value prompt

Making a selection in a value prompt on the prompt page causes the page to refresh and the control goes to the top of the page. When using a screen reader the tab key must be used to navigate back to the value prompt.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration