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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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Checkbox field type & assoc. formula in Salesforce need to be able to be visible in Cognos Analytics with a direct connection

We have made a direct connection from Cognos Analytics to Salesforce.com. We are able to see all Salesforce fields in Cognos with the exception of 2 crucial ones that make the connection useless without them. The one field is called NDA_C and is a...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Notification that test button in "Test Connection" has been clicked and is currently testing.

In IBM Cognos administration portal, under the configuration tab, data source connections, under a data source's connection properties, connection tab, test the connection link, it would be nice if the "Test" button was disabled after clicking it ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add new functionality also in frameworkmanager

New functionality is only added in data modules. We want you to add it also in frameworkmanager. Data modules is not very userfriendly. Our business has +/-300 tables and -/50 Starschema groupings in frameworkmanager. Very important, never end the...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Digital Signature on Cognos report studio report by users

Dear IBM, Users are looking for a functionality to sign digitally to avoid validating the reports by taking printouts every day. Could you please let me know how to get this functionally/option to sign digitally by end users. Thanks, Karunakar
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Remove or encrypt data that is stored in dashboard JSON specification when using a data element in the color slot of a visualization with color consistency turned on

This will prevent data security concerns when distributing packages that contain dashboards
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

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...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Getting rid of "You have unsaved work" dialog box is not intuitive

It isn't intuitive that, in order to get of "You have unsaved work" dialog when editing the report, the user needs to click "Cancel" and then "Edit" button.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Default open in Powerplay

In Cognos 11.0.12 Powerplay "reports / cubes" are being opened as PDF and not with Powerplay.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Cube Measures and sql

Add the ability per cube via an advanced setting to have the mdx query engine send one sql to the databsse for all measures on the report at the same time rather and one sql for each measure. The measure threshold setting does not satisfy this whe...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Mobile Friendly Responsive UI in Cognos when viewing from mobile devices not just dashboard

When accessing Cognos from Android browser, UI need to be responsive and mobile friendly option/menu to have fluid experience
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration