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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 custom images in 11.1 Multi-tenanted

Customers using Cognos Analytics on Cloud Multi-tenanted are going to want to be able to upload or have us upload, their own images, typically for branding purposes.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Support of Informix 14.10 as data source

At the moment, Cognos BI 10.2.2 does not fully support Informix 14.10 as data source, which leads to problems and abortions when running reports: Obviously, Cognos query engine generates SQL code, which cannot be executed within Informix 14.10. Th...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Enable TM1 Cube as a data source in Cognos Analytics Dashboard Creation

It would be great, if you enable TM1 Cube to be used as a data source for developing Cognos Dashboard in Cognos Analytics (v11).
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Cognos 10.2.2-Workspace Adv, Dynamic Drill to detail report does not pass context filters.

In Cognos 10.2.2-Workspace Advanced, the feature Dynamic Drill to detail report does not pass context filters. It passes the dimension values based on the selected intersection but does not pass the context filter value. This feature Works fine in...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Add capability to remap a table in a data module to a new source

In framework manager, we have had the capability to remap a model query subject to a new source for years... it seems this isn't available/possible in data modules, yet would be a significant improvement to give the modeler this capability, like t...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

In dashboards, global or "for this tab" filters based on different levels from same hierarchy should cascade

Users will get a much more intuitive experience if the filters in a dashboard would cascade if they are made of different levels in the same hierarchi.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Expand table visualizations on Dashboards when exporting to PDF

When exporting a Dashboard to a PDF users expect the option to have a table visualization to expand so all of the values are visible without a scrollbar, even if it expands on to additional pages.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Delivered

Enhanced Widget Connections in Dashboards

The request behind this idea is to have additional control over how dashboard visualizations respond to each other via widget connections. It is understood that additional connections can be created to group respective visualizations together but ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

View Tabular data in Excel format

See tabular data in different format (Excel) other than HTML in 11.1.7 ? We have a work around provides the data in Excel, however, it takes twice as long. The query runs once for HTML, then has to run again for Excel. If we have the option to run...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Delivered

Saving a package based data module takes minutes

When trying to create a data module based on a big FM package it takes 2-3 minutes for the data module to save. This should be improved so that saving the data module is faster. Support assumed that it could be the smarts service that takes a long...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Delivered