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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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Allow multiple Targets in Bar and Column Dashboard visualizations

We are trying to create a plan vs actual cost visualization but want to leverage multiple plans. For instance, we have the plan at the beginning of the year as well as the current revised plan. In both bar and column charts, they have the option f...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Create logging capabilities for the mapping feature in Cognos Analytics to allow tracking usage of the feature

Create a mechanism in the product to allow administrators the ability to understand which of their customers are currently using the mapping feature in Cognos Analytics 11
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delivery Notifications for emails sent out from Cognos Application end

When emails with report outputs are bursted from Cognos application, the email id mentioned under Cognos Configuration is considered as the default sender of those emails in case the report / job is being executed by an user which does not have an...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Be able to change ‘FROM’ field, when emailing a reprot, be able to type in an AD group.

This way the report would show coming from the area that needs to be contacted if issues or questions. Right now we schedule using the Cognos credentials and so any correspondence is currently sent back to the Cognos Administrator and not the depa...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add multiple widget connections to one dashboard object

we need to be able to assign to one data object multiple connections not just one like today to be able to setup more complicated interactions similar to gestures in active reports
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement Save to filesystem when running report interactively in background in Cognos Analytics

Implement Save to filesystem when running report interactively in background in Cognos Analytics
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multi select drop down filter like MS Excel

Currently when user looks for multi select prompts, we have only check box and List drop down available. It would be good to have option to have drop down Multi select feature similar to MS Excel to select multiple values.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Use of temp folder

My suggestion is that the themes and extension are not temporary and do not belong in a folder called temporary it causes confusion and difficulty when diagnosing. These should be moved to another folder outside the temp folder.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Edit custom-control -> dataset-options in page-structure view

Editing a report in design mode exposes dataset options to be edited, e.g. query, master-details relation, name and more..Switching the report Page-view from design to structure..Dataset options of custom control are not reachable in this view.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TM1/PAL server able to connect to more than one BI environment with integrated security mode 5

Today it is easy to hit limits on connecting one TM1/PAL instance to only one CA11 environment as there is only one BI environment to be configured in tm1s.cfg for authentication. IntegratedSecurityMode = 5 ClientCAMURI = http://gateway.domain...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration