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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:


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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,


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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


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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 update visualization color palettes across multiple reports at once.

Problem: Our company just rebranded and we were able to update the majority of our Cognos reports with the MotioCI tool, templates, and HTML/CSS. However, we cannot find a way to do a bulk update of the chart colors in our visualizations. The only...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Data security filters on datasets

As a data modeler I want to secure data based on datasets via security filters in data modules. Same type of security filters as for database tables. We have an urgent case now where a dashboard based on uploaded files need to have data security i...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Print Functionality from Browser in CA 11.0.8

Currently we have reports in 10.2.2 which are HTML specific and we use browser's print functionality to print After Migrating to CA, this functionality is lost. so we would request to add back this functionality into CA in future release.When tryi...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Set a custom palette in Cognos 11.1.1 as default for the whole dashboarding environment

Dear IBM, We would like to have the posibility to set a custom Palette which is saved under "Global" as default for the whole dashboarding environment.This is to maintain our corporate identity. Regards, Matthijs, ING Netherlands
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Add function for changing Ascending/Descending next to "Search" fileld in "Filter Condition" window

In the "Search" field of "Filter Condition" window in Report,Items are always displayed in ascending order. We often choose a recent date, but it's very annoying to have to scroll to the bottom. This function of changing Ascendin/Descending was in...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

behavior when 'overwriting' folder using copy should be merge instead of replace (or present user with an option)

When you copy a folder over another folder with the same name, you are prompted to overwrite or rename. If you overwrite it doesn't simply overwrite the files that exist in both the target and source folders, it replaces the entire content of the ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Cognos 11 Dashboard with REST API capabilities

We embed cognos reports and dashboards into another web app. For the new dashboards we cant send parameters in the URL to filter the dashboard via iframes. we use datasets.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Save report output (Excel/PDF) to a local network directory

Currently, when generating reports from Cognos on Cloud, there is no option to direct the report output to a local network file directory. AS-is, without this functionality end users would be unreasonably required to download thousands of pdf file...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Improvement to Report Bursting: Combine Different Outputs into a single email.

When scheduling a Cognos report you can ask for different output formats to be created, for example HTML, PDF and Excel. If a report is scheduled and the report output is emails then Cognos will conbine these different outputs into a single email....
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted
103 VOTE

Modify the default image path

There isn't any way through which customers can safely modify the default image path in Cognos BI server
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration