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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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Customized Font in Schema

Currently its possible to change Color, add Logo's and more via the customazation menu option. However change the font and size is not possible. Mine Customer has the explicit wish to change this as well to their Company standard Font and width.Pl...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Create a subscription mechanism for reports that could work in an airgapped environment (no access to email). Idea is to show a notification to the user in the Cognos UI itself (using the bell).

The customer is generating reports on a regular basis and is not able to use the standard email distribution for those reports because of he is having an airgapped environment.Currently, the team has been using a workaround proposed by Trevor Come...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Print preview for PDF in Chrome is not currently supported

Our customer noticed that printing drill-trough reports from the Chrome Browser no longer works.During our research we found that drill-trough reports are only supported in the Internet Explorer. An APAR with the ID PH02827 was closed with the sta...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Lists and crosstabs are imported as image objects in PowerPoint

When importing report contents into PowerPoint, lists / cross tables should also be importable as Images.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Documentation for admin features

When modifying the features in the admin panel for different userids/groups, there is no way to understand what the effects are on all the areas of the different features. There are more than 1100 of them.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

View dynamic cube messages in audit database or get notifications on failure via mail

When dynamic cubes fail to load or are unable to refresh their member or data cache, this is not logged in the audit database. The only convenient way to view these messages is via the cube messages in the cognos administration console. This way, ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

inherit navigaton path from underlying datamodule

We are modelling in different levels. The first level is a technical layer in which we model the technical to the business terms. There will be one datamodule per fact and dimension. In the next level we are modelling for instance a staar schema w...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Improve Notification table clean up.

We have observed that large number of row counts in the nc database after time that is effecting performance. IBM Cognos BI Schedules Take a Long Time to Complete Can we do more to have observed all tables cleaned up as the following tables with v...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Define Global Custom Styles for Link Widgets

We want to have a Link Widget that follows our branding for all users to use on the Dashboards. While we can define the Custom CSS and copy/paste the CSS into the field everytime, it would be easier for users to select a Global custom style for a ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Enable additional Header/ content in CSV format for report output

We are creating a report that we will export as a CSV file that will then be imported/uploaded to a 3rd party site. The 3rd party site has strict formatting requirements. For example, the first line of the CSV file is additional header with text i...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted