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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


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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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Make it easier when using of Report Variables

In cognos 10, when you were conditionally formatting an object across multiple values -- it was relatively easy to turn on the functionality for each value -- and it was relatively easy to turn it off or revert to the Default/Other value (by doubl...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to delete a data source in reporting tool

In C11R9 dashboarding tool we have the ability to delete the datasource of a dashboard. We would like to have this ability in the C11 Reporting tool -(ylp)
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Define Global Custom Styles for Link Widgets

We want to have a Link Widget that follows our branding for all users to use on the Dashboards. While we can define the Custom CSS and copy/paste the CSS into the field everytime, it would be easier for users to select a Global custom style for a ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Enable additional Header/ content in CSV format for report output

We are creating a report that we will export as a CSV file that will then be imported/uploaded to a 3rd party site. The 3rd party site has strict formatting requirements. For example, the first line of the CSV file is additional header with text i...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

REST API: Provide more detail about the usage/links to File-Based and External data sources.

Here are the API calls I make: To find out about external data sources (Postgres etc.) I use the url: <url>/api/v1/datasources and <url>/api/v1/datasources/<id>/connections To find out which files are imported into the platform I...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Option to disable Pin command on dashboard visualizations toolbar

Sended here by IBM support team. Some people can Pin visualizations outside the dashboard context. And this option can compromise our Data Management policies.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Active reports .mht viewing alternative

With IE not supported soon, allow any browser to view standalone active reports
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Need ability to hide default palette in charts

Currently setting a conditional palette in the chart still leaves default palette showing in the legend. We ask to either have some kind of ability to manually hide the default palette or make it be hidden automatically when the conditional palett...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove report name prefix from burst output name

We have as requirement send a PDF report via email from Cognos, with a specific custom name. We have already the custom name save into burst field but we would like to remove the report name prefix of the PDF file name generated. Because from Even...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

In "My schedules and subscriptions," display the current enable/disable status as selected by the user

In My schedules and subscriptions, if you enable/disable the schedule from ... (More), and then Properties or Modify Schedule, the status does not update in the list of schedules/subscriptions. However, when you click ... (More) and then Enable/Di...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration