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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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Ability to set e-mail sensitivity label

This is a customer submitted question. Can sensitivity labels be applied to scheduled Costpoint BI reports or are there plans to do so in the future? For added security and protection.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Alternate Sort Selection in Dashboards

We need the ability to establish alternative sort criteria in Dashboards. The primary use case for this would be for sorting based on a timestamp. For example, a chart may use "YYYY-Month" as the X-axis but without the ability to perform an altern...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Lets Get Rid of the Big White Blinking Page in Reporting!

User is viewing a Cognos report, and executes a drill through or refresh...Page goes white, animated gif starts spinning forever, while you're looking at a white page...drill through report applications are elegant, except for this behavior! This ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Data module Lookup reference property for implementing relative time

Lookup reference property in Data Module is currently available only when creating calculations created within a table, but, not when we create calculations that reside outside of tables. We are trying to implement relative time for calculated fie...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to notify me functionality; "Notify me" Include Email Notification Option (Cloud & OnPrem)

Current : when a user selects an option to notify me for the report/output, when the scheduled report gets updated. Cognos notifies the user with bell notifications updates in Home Portal. Functionality Need: In addition to the Bell notifications,...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

License - users vs viewer

Our company is reviewing our existing license allocation and currently when I go into the License section within Cognos Analytics - it shows that whenever a new user is created and logs into the environment, it is flagged as an analytics users not...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Ability to change user preferences without logging out of Cognos

In «My Preference», users have no «Apply» button to confirm the product language and content language.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboards: not able to create calculation using data items from file uploaded and gosales sample FM package

TS001075080:CAR11: not able to create calculation using data items from file uploaded and gosales sample FM package.From IBM: I heard back from the Offering Manager this afternoon. The ability to create a calculation involving two separate sources...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard with multiple visualizations logs multiple records in the Audit database.

We have a dashboard report in Cognos that is created from a dataset. Ran the report once but see that it shows a 7 entries in standard audit report "Execution History By User". This gives an inaccurate run count when we send the audit report to bu...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Analysis Studio and Query Studio to continue support Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome

Refer to Banking customer in Thailand who has been using Analysis Studio to analyse for 60 deposit mortgage rates for package data that using via browse more than 100 reports to ensure that all important business activities in the bank. Currently ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration