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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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Enhance Filters of queries created in Query Studio that are migrated under Report

We are migrating our users from Query studio C10.2.1 to report C11 R11 Filters of Query Studio are migrated under Report as "filterExpression", That could be improved for users because filterExpression do not appear dynamically in the filter.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add filter tree element for time series breaking year, month (string), days, time...

When building a dashboard, it's a common requirement to filter time in group blocks, just like in MS Excel (example attached). This feature do not exists in cognos dashbord for filtering, although there's something similar in the table view widget...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Allow for burst report test sending to see the outputs that would be generated

Allow users to essentially test the outputs of a burst report without actually sending anything to the recipients. For example - see the individual excel files that would go to a given email address, but send to the person testing, not the recipie...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Annotation Support in Cognos Reports

The user wants to create a storyboard from the reports that available for them and be able toannotate (i.e red lining, or draw a circle to highlight something on the chart/report, andadd free form text / comments) and then able to save them. Also,...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Receive a warning when you delete a detail report used in master reports.

When a user deletes a report, he does not know that this report is used as a detail report in master reports, in case there are master-detail relationship defined. So, the user should have a warning to indicate that the report is a detail reports...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

Scheduling Feature Enhancements

Here are the key improvements we would like to the scheduling feature and capabilities: 1. We need the ability to limit all schedules to a minimum of 15 minute intervals. This means no report or agent can be scheduled for 1, 5, or 10 minute interv...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to switch between portal pages in Cognos Analytics

We have CA 11.1.7 FP2 installed on our environment and are trying to configure portal pages based on roles in Cognos, as follows: Log in with System Administrator account, go to: Manage -> People -> Accounts -> Cognos -> select rol...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Remove en-us suffix when background running reports file name

Remove en-us suffix when background running reports
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Support for Microsoft Office 2019

Our customers want to use Cognos Analytics together with Microsoft Office to use analytic insights within office products like Excel, Word and Powerpoint. Currently (as of 22th of Oct 2019) latest version of Office 2019 is officially not supported.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Rows per page in HTML Reports - Say 1000 at global level

Require a way to load all the pages when run as HTML as their user do not like the page down or up options. currently they are using "Rows per page in HTML Reports" to reduce number of pages.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration