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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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Cognos Lifecycle Manager support for SSO and related authentication

Cognos LifeCycle Manager is a very useful tool for upgrade projects. But as of now it does not support SSO and related authentication challenges. But most of the implementations happens with SSO and/or secured protocols. It will help during upgrad...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add theming options for the new OpenMenu bar

The Open Menu bar is replacing the Navigation Bar in Cognos Analytics 12.0.x. It's actually just a naming difference more than anything else. They both are the effective left bar in the user portal that contain links to your My Folders, Public Fol...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Allow users to move columns in interactive viewer

Users have the ability to set their own groups and subtotals within the interactive viewer. If I provide a simple list report to be used in the interactive viewer and one user wants to group by Customer and another wants to group by Project Manage...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Using Pins within Stories

One way to create a story is to use pins - going into a dashboard and pinning a visualization - which then becomes part of "My Pins" within the story. What would be nice is for an administrator to be able to create a Global Pin or denote an existi...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Clear all selected conditions at once

In Cognos Analytics 11 at the moment, there is the way to clear the selected conditions one by one. We want you to add a function to cancel all conditions at once by the filter icon displayed in the upper right of the visualization.In Cognos Analy...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Auto Start Play Stories

My company has several TV monitors throughout our factory floor we use display Cognos dashboards with performance metrics. We would like to use stories to show more information across multiple slides. One pain point preventing us from implementing...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Lineage functionality for Dynamic Cubes

Cognos Analytics should have the functionality to present data lineage for packages/data models based on Dynamic Cubes.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reset Dashboard - remove colour consistency, orphaned drill throughs, navigation path etc

Developers have accidentally released dashboards with drill down filters applied. Developers are seeing duplicate data item names in drill thru definitions.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Add Browse Functionality for JavaScript Path for Page / CustomControl Modules

Currently there is a simple text box for indicating the path to the JavaScript files to be used for CustomControl and Page Modules. It would be great to have a browse interface similar to the one used when locating image files. This helps assure d...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable to make the printer name drop down list or the whole property pane broader, in order to be able to distinguish the similar long names of the printers in the new CA user interface as well

Description of the issue: if the printer names are too long and similar, it is not possible to distinguish them in the new CA user interface simply and at the first look.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration