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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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Optional Date Prompt Check Box should be Unchecked by default

The optional behaviour of the date prompt is different to every other cognos prompt. it is even different to the date prompt when it is used in Range mode! When a date prompt is made optional, a check box appears to show if it should or should not...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Would like to be able to match the color of the What's New and maintenance banner to match our custom brand colors.

When rebranding Cognos with our custom company colors, the banner is on the landing page and doesn't match our custom colors.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Report References and Bursting

Report references allow you to create booklet like reports containing other reports. Report references are awesome! With very little effort you can combine reports. And there is no maintenance, changes in the reference report are automatic in the ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow use of wildcards in Search requests

Allow use of wildcard characters in "search" text strings. The allowable characters could emulate those defined by Google (https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en)
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Changing the source of a dataset

As a data analyst I want to be able to change the source of a dataset. This is necessary when it has been moved or the location name has been changed. We know where the source is, but there's no way we can change the source.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Contional Formatting in Vizualisations in Dashboarding

We would like the ability to conditionally format visualisations in dashboarding. For example, to apply RAG to a bar based on a specific criteria. Or to highlight something in red if a specific criteria is met etc.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Search and Select Select Prompt Options Criteria

Currently, the search and select prompt search options are defaulted to 'Starts with any of these keywords'. we would like to have an option in the reports builder to decide which of the options should be defaulted.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Drill through from report to dashboard

Our business users like controllers want to make detailled analyses if they find extraordinary values in standard reports. Therefore we want to create enriched self service data modules for them which they can analyse with the dashboard tool by dr...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

enable navigation of users setup in AzureAD for Cognos Analytics setup with OpenID Connect namespace with Azure AD

PAIN POINT: Cognos Analytics admistratos can currently not navegate,view or search users which exist in AZURE AD when Cognos Analytics is setup with OpenID Connect namespace to authenticate with Azure AD; only error prone and time consuming creati...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Ability to download / upload Custom Palette

User develops Custom Global Palettes (Manage > Customization > Palette > New custom palette) in DEV environment and creates reports using the custom palettes. User exports new reports from DEV to UAT. Custom Palettes are not included in t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration