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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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Set default width of vertical divider

The entire name of the PowerPlay Reports cannot be displayed in the navigation bar, because they are a bit too long. Ability to set the default width of vertical divider for all users.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability for user to hide date of content folders, dashboards, powerplay reports

I would like to have the ability to hide the date below the name of folders, dashboards, reports, etc. in the navigation bar.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Lists, crosstabs, charts, tables resize with mouse

It would be muche easer to create reports if we could change size of objects by using just mouse (no property settings by entering high and wight).We can do this with Visualizations but for some reason this does not work with other objects (tables...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Visualizations Vanish when at 0 (or not applicable)

If a "Summary" visualization has a "0" value, can that visualization literally not show up?
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report name & logo name (firm name) not appearing in Report Output screen in HTML report output, instead appears new report

Report name & logo name not appearing in Report Output screen in HTML while running the report , instead giving Report name as NEW REPORT with logo name it's not same case in cognos 10.2.2 steps: open in report in report studio run in cognso 1...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Adding images to reports and dashboards

Currently only administrators can upload images.Anyone making a report should be able to upload images . Just like all the other BI tools out there
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Db2 encrypt data source connection setup

We are trying to setup DB2 encrypt data source Connection in Cognos R6 - R13 thru JDBC to support DQM . Currently Cognos r13 is not supporting and it's falling .Opened CASE to IBM and suggested to open REF for this functionality
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow user to add extra properties in vizualisation (Dashboard)

Dear,Could we envisage to add extra properties in vizualisation (Dashboard) in order to pass extra values to drill-through.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rich text content not available in reports

The long description fields in the ICD can contain formatted content („rich text content“).This content cannot be reported with Cognos.The appropriate cognos tool for this kind of data would be the Rich Text element but these elements support ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to change label in Dashboard

It should be possible to change the label of the data imported to dashboard. Currently this data property is greyed out and can not be changed.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration