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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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Freeze Title Row

We have implemented JavaScript to freeze the top row of lists based on this tech article: http://www.ibm. com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/reporting/advanced_report_design/page622.html. Everything works as expected when viewing the active re...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display breadcrumb trail on Dashboard Navigation Paths

When using Navigation Paths in a visualization on the Dashboard, users have to remember the path they drilled down and around. There are no indications on the visualization.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Automated Data Quality Assessment

This feature would enable users to identify and address data quality issues within their datasets seamlessly. The system should perform checks for missing values, outliers, inconsistencies, and other data anomalies. It could also provide suggestio...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Support for spatial datatype in Cognos BI

Nowday many companies have location based data stored in the database. The location based data can be a location or area on the field. Many database vendors supports geo spatial datatype and functions like DB2, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Relative Date on FM Package dates and measures in Data Module

Relative Dates feature is very useful for doing as of date analysis. but currently it is limited to excel file, data sets. Our users mostly use FM package to do this kind of analysis.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom polygons via mapbox not zoomed in Cognos

Custom polygons via mapbox not zoomed in CognosThe map stays at worldview TS001308541
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Separate app install folders for Cognos for Microsoft Office and PAx tools - TS001084642

In the current state, the installation scripts are combined for Cognos for Microsoft Office v. 11.0 and for Planning Analytics v. 2.0.2 into one zip file Both tools are installed together at the same time and in the same client folder. Attempting ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include Null Filter Works Strangely

I have a report with two columns in a list: Period Year and Month and Charges. At the top of the list is correctly a row for which the timeframe is empty (because the period has not been close yet for those entries). When I add a filter to the rep...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Archive file location active checking and failover

We have encountered issues when the archive location may not be available at system startup that there is no reconnection attempt made. The system just continues to startup without warning other than logging this in the cogserver log. When jobs ru...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The appearance of new reports shouldn't depend on the user permission "read"

Reports with the new behavior don't work as designed, if the user has no permission to "read" the report. (Report-Properties: Run with full interactivity: Yes / Report style: 11.4 styles) Regardless of the read-permission, a report should have the...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration