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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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Mobile: Other option to create Legacy studios and Manage button in browser

We are unable to view the Other option to create Legacy studios and Manage button in browser (not from cognos mobile app) from Mobile.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

To enable the font color to be red(or other color) when number below zero

It is known that we can use conditional style to change a number color to red or whatever when it is below zero. However, if a report contains a lot of figures (like 20+), it is very stupid to apply 20+ conditional styles on these items one by one...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unavailability of 'Save the report as a report view' option for Delivery in Jobs

We could not find an option called "Save the report as a report view" in Analytics View to save the report as a report view for a report in the job from the report properties, so we are unable to view the report details from the Job when a report ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Added a 'highlighter' color option that would allow sections of a report image to be highlighted

Added a 'highlighter' color option (e.g. translucent) that would allow sections of a report image to be highlighted either by using the pen or a drawing object (e.g. rectangle) instead of just underlined by a pen or outlined by a box.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need more logging information in Cognos Administration Tool

In the "Past Activities" (IBM Cognos Administration‬ > Status > Past Activities),we can see the status of past scheduled reports.The customer also want to see the following information in this function.-Past all executed reports.(Not only ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard- Filter: Filter range option missing for dimensions

End users are unable to select a range of values while applying filter on certain dimensions.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add filter criteria to Excel ouput from WSA/11 as available in Query Studio today

Excel output from Query Studio includes the filter criteria added to the query. Would like similar capability in Workspace Advanced/11.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Removing Email Address from Run History Details Page

As part of the GDPR regulations that are coming into effect, we are required to remove any email addresses that might be exposed in Cognos Connection. When a report is scheduled / run in the background and set to be emailed to a specific email add...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

API should be updated to above API Version 54 in Cognos to query Salesforce Healthcare Cloud data

To query the data for Salesforce Healthcare Cloud it is required to have a minimum apiversion of 54 for the connector. Currently Cognos 12 supports only upto apiversion 49. When connected to salesforce using this version of the api, not able to do...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Tab in tabs in dashboards

We would like to be able to create subtabs in dashboards. A tab consisting of one or many sub-tabs. This would make it easier to structure the data in a dashboard.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration