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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,


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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


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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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Change element icons within the content store navigation (as it was possible under Cognos 10.x.x)

In Congos Analytics 11 it is not possible to change the icon for example of a report or folder as it was possible under Cognos 10.x.x. If a user navigates through the Content Store he always see the same icons for reports or folders, it is not pos...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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 ...
7 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...
7 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...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Export on Dashboard R7 only available to for author mode

We have a requirement to be able to export data from public facing dashboards. The drill through to report doesn't work because we can't change the default output from HTML to excel or CSV and the default setting on the report isn't used. The R7 e...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Create DMR (dimension hierarchy) in Data Module

In Framework Manager, you can create a DMR. Can you add this functionality within a data module?
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to search for multiple objects in a dasboard filter

Ability to search for multiple objects in a dasboard filter at the same time . For example when copy pasting from Excel.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Function to add "+" at the beginning if the value is a positive number.

Currently, there is a function to add "-" at the beginning for negative numbers. Similarly, we need the ability to add a "+" at the beginning. Example) 5% → + 5%
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to add URL in Dashboard / Story

Hi,We would like to be able to add clickable URL in Dashboarding tools.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Sort Order in the Output of Burst Reports

The order of output versions for a burst report is not in sorted order. Users are looking for enhancement as soon as possible since this feature is available in Cognos 10.2.1
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration