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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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When using Top x Filter need option to group all other categories

When charting Top X categories we should give an option to simply group the other categories and display these on the chart as 'Other'. We'd see the Top X pluse one additional 'Other' category. This could be optional to choose to follow this group...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 2 Not under consideration

New option for load balancing

Especially at the beginning of a month our customers execute masses of reports at once. The queue within Cognos is huge. Most of the reports run fast, but there are also many reports that run longer (> 30 min. and runtime is even longer in this...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Support creation of Navigation paths with Framework Manager and Transfomer

Both Framework manager and Transfomer should be able to support creation Navigation paths like available within Data modules
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Scan Uploaded files for viruses and negative content during upload

Currently Cognos Analytics does not scan uploaded files for viruses or negative content
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Web Services Calls Needed

Web Services Calls previously supported by VVM in the Cognos 10 environment are needed to support the transition to Cognos 11.0.10 These items are critical to the success of the transition and are stopping us from being able to move forward. This ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

HTML (Javascript, Integeo, Maps etc) export to PDF, Excel (Cognos Connection)

We want to run a report with a map to excel, PDF etc. In the attachment you can see what happends when we run a report with a integeomap in PDF (modus).
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

HTML Item for Dashboard

We are an Australian based software company (Pronto Software) which bundles with Cognos Analytics. We are rolling out new Dashboards based on Cognos Analytics and retiring older versions built using Cognos 10. We have a pain point however - we are...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Folder Object Count

There should be an easy way to see how many objects are in a folder.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Change/Update Hover Tip

We would like to be able to update the hover tip when you hover over a report name. Our customers are used to a friendly name, not the report number that was given to it.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement a relying-party backchannel logout URL to allow for Single Signout.

When integrating Cognos elements into a portal, secured against OIDC namespace, it would be helpful if we could employ token-based single-signout from our OIDC provider, rather than having to force the users to log-out manually from Cognos Analyti...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Submitted