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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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Provide a standard, intuitive, approach to applying changes on flyout panels

Since the initial release of Cognos 11 and its use of "flyout" panels there has always been confusion about how to apply changes that are made to property values in the flyout. Some panels have a "Done" button. Some have an "Apply" button. Some ha...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Editing icons

The ability to edit an icon no longer appears in Cognos Analytics.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Pattern to Dashboard Visualizations for Visually Impaired

Similar to traditional reports, it would be valuable to have the ability to add a pattern to to Dashboard visualizations in order to support the visually impaired. The UI used to choose palettes could be used to define a pattern to apply to visual...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drawing a circle with radius for a latitude longitude point in the visualization map

Drawing a circle with radius for a latitude longitude point
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Deploy - Export/Import Datasources

Deploy - when we check deploy datasources, cognos deploys all the datasources in the environment.1. Like other areas in Cognos - we should be able to create DS in groups, inside a nice folder and deploy then in groups or individually - with creden...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Issue with Cognos Axes

Issue with Axes in Cognos reports, please go thru enclosed document, it has the details
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add advanced setting to cancel jobs in waiting status

Would like to have an Advanced Setting that would limit how long Jobs or Scheduled reports are stuck in a "Waiting" state.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Less time consuming way to make negative numbers red in a list report

It's so easy to put negative numbers in brackets but to colour them red you have to use a conditional format on each column. This can be time consuming and laborious when the list report is very wide. No less than 12 mouse clicks are required for ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

audit logs should distinguish user cancel from report failure

Our executives get monthly updates on report failure rates from our Cognos BI hosted solution. We find that a significant portion of the reports that are recorded in audit tables (cogipf_runreport) are actually user cancels. In order to develop ac...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adding auto-sync to add a group users from OKTA without importing .cvs file

The IT/admin wants to be able to add multiple or a group of users from OKTA (Open ID) on CA instead of one by one, intuitively they'd do so directly from the 'add' button and expect to see the list (of user groups) for selection. Benefits: this ne...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration