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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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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

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

Select and Search Prompt at global parameters

to pick values for global parameters by a "Select and Search Prompt" (available at reports) would make it more comfortable
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Prompting based on a filter in dashboard with TM1 Source or filtering based on measures.

The Dashboard needs to have prompting the same way reports has or at least filtering based on measure should be enabled. This would have a very significant impact on the usability of tm1 cubes with Cognos Analytics dashboards. There is need for th...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Loading Library Visualizations: Please allow us to click more than one per import

From Cognos administration > Library > import. When browsing, we can only import one at a time. shift-click nor ctrl-click are allowed to load more than one visualization at a time.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More meaning APAR Software version

When reviewing an APAR on IBM site, there is a "Software version" field. This field invariable lists some meaningless value. For example, https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH42408?myns=swgimgmt&mynp=OCSSTSF6&mync=E&cm_sp=swgimgmt-...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 Not under consideration

Ordering the fields on Data Module.

Ordering the fields on Data Module.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for Javascript for Esri Maps for IBM Cognos

Esri Maps for Cognos provides Esri mapping and GIS capabilities in Cognos reports. Esri requires JavaScript support in order for Esri Maps for IBM Cognos to work. The SDK + IBM Cognos v11 does not support embedding JavaScript/HTML in interactive m...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Monthly subscription

CA11 introduced 'subscriptions' which currently only allows selection on day (monday -> sunday) and time. It would be useful to also have monthly/quaterly... options, same as what is available in scheduling. All the more as they appear as regul...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration