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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


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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Custom Tooltips in Dashboards & Reports

Custom Tooltips is an extremely helpful thing for anyone Cognos users. Please add this feature in all possible scenarios mainly Dashboards and Reports.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Not under consideration

Dashboard: How to set the column width of the table freely.

The width of columns cannot be set freely in the table for dashboard. If that is possible, valuable space can be effectively utilized.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release

Audit tables with userfriendly content

We use audit-db a lot, mainly for run and usage statistics and for trouble solving. In order to make the result more readable/understandable we do a lot of string conversions etc. This makes audit reports and dataset refresh slow. The retrieval of...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Report search should only be returning items that the user has permissions to see

Search in portal enviroment does not take into account user's permissions and returns all reports matching in name.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Multiple schedules per report.

Could we please allow multiple schedules per report? Needing to create multiple report views just to schedule them is very inconvenient and leads to lots of clutter. When creating a schedule you could require a name and a description for the sched...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

enable to embed microcharts in tables (lists) in dashboard module

In Report Module you can add (legacy) microcharts in a list. I would like to have this also available in the dashboard module: adding a microchart to a table widget (list).
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Use or mimic Global Parameters to work on Dashboards to set Filters by user

Currently we have a Dashboard with a BranchOffice Filter. The users do not have save/updated capability on Dashboards. We don't want a free for all of changing and saving the dashboards. If that was the case, then every user would have to go thru ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Calculated members in Dashboard

Hi, we asking for support calculated members in Dashboard component as it is support in Report
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements to Event Agent (aka Studio)

Hi, I have these enhancements points for Event Studio which is now called Event Agent. Points to enhance Event Agent: Ability to assign task name to something different than the inherited name. Ability to see all the selected prompt values without...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Cognos 11 - Email Attachment Restriction

Requesting the ability to lock down a user or group's ability to send reports as attachments in email form. This functionality was available by adding a "CC_RUN_OPTIONS_email_attachment" "ui_hide" parameter value in the system.xml file (under "{in...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration