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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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Customize font colors in Cognos 11

We want to be able to customize font colors in Cognos 11. In previous version, there was option to customize User Interface (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ba-pp-infrastructure-portals-page631/) by using styles/skin.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support localization of Theme

As a robust enterprise solution, IBM Cognos Analytics supports several great localization options. However, we are not able to customize the Administration > Customization > Theme based on language. It would be great if Cognos had an option ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

New Routing Rules Screen in Internet Explorer does not work properly

The new Routing rules screen does expand well in Internet Explorer it works with FireFox which is not our standard browser the screen collapses and it's not friendly. see attached screen shots
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

IBM CA Cloud 11.1.7: Audit Package to include the items regarding the roles and/or groups an individual user is in

In the past, when we had Cognos on prem we could run SQL against the content store that would allow to see all the roles and/or groups of an individual user. Our Internal auditors need this information for compliance purpose. Per IBM Support case ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Using Ystart drop zone should result in having an adjusted value axis starting point

If you use the Ystart options in a column chart in dashboarding, the columns will effectively start at the selected Y-value, but the resulting visualisation will just show an empty space below the Y-value.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Stop pre populating Send Report by email To field with Cognos ID

Description Problem: When user trying to run any with Run as in the background and send report by email the To text box is being repopulated with users Cognos_id which is not a valid email address. Steps to reproduce:goto any report click ... Run ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Cognos to Essbase Connectivity

To connect Cognos 11.0.* to Essbase 11.1.2.3.*. for reporting. This will help users to have front end reporting for Essbase using Cognos
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set global parameters in Cognos Lifecycle Manager

Ability to set the use/display value for a parameter once in a project and have it use across multiple reports
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update AI/Smarts independent of platform upgrade.

A way to train/update the CA AI model with the latest smarts independent from a platform upgrade would be very useful. Our AI user base wants the newer AI enhancements, but we aren't able to continuously upgrade CA every time a new version comes o...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

Datamodule as meta data reference

In bigger environments with many data rooms mata data management is an important topic. to prevent business authors not importing again and again the same meta data and spend time to rename and bring business information to the meta data it should...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration