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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 authorize access to AD per tenant

We want to arrange that a tenant administrator (so the administrator for a specific tenant) can link users from AD to a certain Cognos-group (license). We want to achieve that the tenant administrator is only able to see and select users from its ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Conditional Palette /Legend Charts

In Pie /Bar chart Conditional Palette applied and it’s working as expected, but somehow the legend is not able applied the same color whatever color pie slice ,and to show legend on slice other than option "All around the pie / Left and Right pie"...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Spacing of Text in Prompts

Provide additional configuration options on setting the Text spacing. Better UI Experience
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Fix Output Version sort issue

We have burst output being saved, but when viewing the saved output versions of the reports often they are not sorted as specified by our burst key. When running the job that bursts the reports, the report output versions are being generated in or...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

11.1 visualization like stacked column charts needs format enhancements

For pixel perfect reporting visualizations needs to give a compliant look on a report page (PDF or HTML) in specific if multiple visualizations are used on the same page. The current options for formatting the visualizations are still too few. In ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Search reports sent to

I would like to be able to query who reports are delivered to.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MHT File Download

Provide users with the ability to download the active report while viewing the report in the browser
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Predefined trigger name via drop down list

It is possible to set a trigger name for scheduling reports via external trigger. This trigger name is a text input box and should be configurable for predefined values to ensure correct naming. Until version 11.1.5. with a unsupported customizati...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Split Data Modules to two : "Data clean" & "Data Modeling" tools

Data Module contains several features and becomes a real gas factory, far from a "self service" tool for a user, even advanced. I think it would be interesting to divide it into two tools. One to integrate and clean the data and another oriented r...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Crosstab - Ability to rename 'Summary' row

For certain crosstabs, the aggregate or 'Summary' row as it is labelled is not always the ideal wording for the aggregate, and we have had users asking if it could be renamed in instances to 'Total' for example. This would be helpful from a usabil...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release