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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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Search for function in report data item expression editor

Funtions from the Funtions tab are used very often in the report data item expression editor. But sometimes you don't know the precise name or which are available for your data source by heart. So a simple search by name (and description/Tips) wou...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Store Data Connection in Job

We deliver several (20+) data sets to our clients in a multi-tenant environment. These datasets are deployed with demo data. They must copy these to a secured tenant folder in order to update them with their own data. We provide a pre-defined job ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Callout/Highlight (add to Canvas) to have conditional formating

Callout/highlight (add to canvas) requires conditional formatting (text/ background) to display eg1 Green for positive or Red for Negative, 2 Green, Amber, Red to show the impact Sorry I could not find a name to describe this function in the IBM d...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

upload images as capability for users, not only for admin

Have the option to upload images (extension) as a reporting and dashboarding creator so self-service users are again less dependant from the administrator. This option should be a capability so the administrator can allow or deny this to different...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

wordpress, drupal, cpanel, etc plugins

With the push to provide easier mechanisms to share Cognos content, I would like IBM to develop plugins for popular website, CRM, and e-commerce providers. The plugin should allow the website owner to define the credentials used, the target conten...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Enhance CDC v11.4 source engine to support oracle ASM redundancy with failure group

In China some customer is using Oracle ASM redundancy solution with failure group which support 2 storage systems located at both machine rooms as storage redundancy and Disaster backup under oracle control. If one of machine room happens power do...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Azure Synapse Connector

A dedicated connector stage for Azure Synapse will be helpful for organization with multi-cloud presence. Current version of Cloud Pak doesn't have this feature.
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 2 Future consideration

Add Edit in Preview Mode Default Action to report properties

Adding a default action of "Edit in preview mode" to report properties would help with lots of users who are using Analysis Studio or Cognos Workspace Advanced in C10 get more quickly customized with Cognos Analytics as context filters and metadat...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Specify Drill Target Report format when drilling from Dashboard

In Cognos Analytics 11 when drilling through from a Dashboard visualization to a Report want to have the option to select the target report format.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Application and plan deployment

Currently has been added the possibility to migrated with lifecycle manage the applications and plan across environments. What is not possible is to migrate the application across multiple TM1 servers For example, with the workbooks we can select ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration