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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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Aility to Connect to SharePoint 2013 and Social Media Sites

Business has had the need to connect their CA deployment to a broader range of disparate data sources, including SharePoint 2013 list objects and also corporate social media sites such as facebook and twitter.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Bilingual filters works in Report but not working in Dashboard

When I create a bilingual Dashboard, the default language is English, the filters are in English. But If I change the language in “My Preference” to French, the filters are not selected (not switched to French).
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under 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 ...
6 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...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

REST API: Provide more detail about the usage/links to File-Based and External data sources.

Here are the API calls I make: To find out about external data sources (Postgres etc.) I use the url: <url>/api/v1/datasources and <url>/api/v1/datasources/<id>/connections To find out which files are imported into the platform I...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Formatting of KPI and summary visualizations i dashboards

I would like to be able to format the number and not just the title of Summary and KPI visualizations. I would like to change the size and the color. I know I can change the color of a summary KPI but it is limitted colors, and I am today not able...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Clicks in viz should filter global filter in dashboards

When we click on a viz inside a dashboard it, by default, filters the other widget in the dashboard. It does not filter the data added in the filter pane which is also part of the dashboard.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Dashboard function setting individually on packages

The authorization for the "Dashboard" function can currently only be authorized at the top level in Cognos Administration under Security/Functions. However, we also need the ability to allow assignment individually to packages, as some users shoul...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Cognos Analytics New Report - Default Behaviour like Analysis Studio (Cubes)

We have many business users transitioning from Analysis Studio and would like the product defaults for "Report" to be similar to that tool, especially for dimensional data sources. Currently we have to manually set:- View settings -> check “Sho...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Seamless embed into Sharepoint portal of CA-11 Dashboard & Reports

With Cognos 10.2.2, it was possible to seamlessly embed reports and objects into a Sharepoint portal by using the CPS composent.Since CA-11, that capability (CPS for Sharepoint) is no more available and although the 'embed'(iFrame) and 'share'(lin...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration