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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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Select total data item (incl. brackets) by double click in an expression

If you want to change an expression and double click on the data item name, only the word is selected without the brackets. Most of the time you want to delete or change by another data item. In that case you have to remove the brackets separately...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve the UI/UX of the aggregation settings by showing the full list and keyboard support

Show the full list of the detail and summary aggregation options including the ability to use the keyboard by setting this option. In most situations there is more than enough space to show the full list instead of the list without a scrollbar. W...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show more characters in the detail filters window

Under the detail filters, for each filter expression only the first 50 characters are shown. There is more than enough space to make more characters visible, especially in these time where full HD is the default sreen resolution. We know the possi...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Option to collapse all queries

In bigger reports with a lot of queries (>10), the queries a shown by default unfolded. In these situations you want the same collapse options as in the data source to collapse all unfolded item once.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve "Create custom filter/filter condition" window by bringing back scrollbar and multiselect

The "create custom filter" is improved a lot, however. The choice to replace the scrollbar into a page up/down button is in our experience clumsy. When you have a list with for example customer names, using the page down button to navigate through...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos BI for MS Office - Images in Conditional styles not imported

When background images are used in conditional styling (like arrow icons to denote the movement of metrics), they are not exported when the Cognos Add-in for MS Office is used to export the report to Power Point
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos connection into MS Excel Group/Ungroup Capabilities

Provide export functionality that maintains HTML Group/UnGroup capabilities to MS. Today when a Users exports to Excel, the HTML formatting does not pass to the exported file. Targeted for WSA and Report Studio
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adjust Radio Buttons too Large

Provide additional size options for Radio Button prompt. Better UI Experience
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Round Tabs

Provide a Round Tab option for UI development. For WSA and Report Studio.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Source IP address filtering feature for "public" Watson services

Our company requires every external applications service to add an additional authentication method other than the apikey authentication. For example: token based 2 factor authentication, client certificate authentication or source IP address filt...
almost 5 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration