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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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Option to copy object location in Cognos

We have many reports that live many folders deep in Team content. In order to get the navigation path for a particular report, we used to be able to copy the bread crumbs displayed in Cognos 10 or there was a navigation path in the report properti...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Cascading Prompts in Dashboards

We have developed a dashboard that includes prompts that provide the user with levels of our company hierarchy (ex. Opco, Bus Unit, Region, Branch ). We want the users to be able to choose an Operational Unit, and this choice will filter the Bus U...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Allow Cognos Framework manager to take a JASON ro rest api as a datasource

Enhance Cognos Framework Manager to be able to use and API or JSON output as a datasource. This will save applications from having to temporarily save API outputs into a database.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Support of Python in Cognos Analytics

I would like to have support for python in Cognos Analytics
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Add more lines to line-column chart

Add more values to line-column chart line field, similarly like on a simple line chart. Lines would be differentiated by colors.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Cognos Analytics v11, LDAPS and FIPS Enabled

We are planning to deploy Cognos Analytics v11.x on Redhat for a major federal government. Integrating with AD/LDAP and FIPS Enabled. However, your product does not support FIPS enabled as of today. Our environment requires FIPS enabled. Thus, nee...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Expose Report View Descriptions

The new UI doesn’t surface descriptions for Report Views.  If I go to properties the description is populated with the description from the source report but it doesn’t show in this tile (or list) view.  It would be nice if it would show...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Delivered

Remove Preview as default when editing Data Sets

It is difficult to edit data sets that source large volumes of data because default when editing is to preview the data set. It sometimes takes 30 minutes for our data sets to load data into preview mode before we can start editing our data set.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Ability to create custom Dashboard Templates

Current templates provided with Cognos 11 are a good start. But it soon becomes necessary to create your own templates. There needs to be a way to create a variety of dashboard templates.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Report Visualization v11.1 limitation (drill-through options and full-interactivitymandatory)

It is necessary to have drill-through options with the new visualizations 11.1. In the other hand Full interactivity is mandatory to use these new visualizations but it create to much confusion for users coming from the old versions.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered