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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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Custom URLs for Cognos Analytics cannot be created for Excel files published by Cognos for Microsoft Office

Cognos for Microsoft Office can be used to publish Excel files to Cognos Analytics. The published files are not reports and the custom URLs currently cannot handle access to the published files. The files also do not have share/embed functionality
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filter hierachy in dashboard global filter

To be able to filter similar like powerplay where you hover the mouse over a member and see its children. Then be able select and filter the dashboard/report like this.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Query Service and Content Administration Task Status Notifications

As an administrator, I would like the ability to be notified via e-mail of the completion status for scheduled query service and content administration tasks. Scenario #1: Dynamic Cubes member/data cache refreshes are performed by a scheduled quer...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add box to Dashboard texts

Add surround marker and column value labels with boxes - Screenshot Add Report like Font and colors in Axis Labels in Column Chart You have added that in KPI widget in 11.2.0 but not in others Problem - QBRs are going to Power BI
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

New Cognos Role (License) which restricts Business Authors to a limited features in REPORTS Module

System: Cognos Analytics REPORTS moduleActor: Restrictions to specific features of REPORTS Module to Business Authors. With migration of Cognos 10.x to Cognos 11.x, a big leap is seen in the moving away from Workspace Advanced, which for many Busi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Freeze Title Row

We have implemented JavaScript to freeze the top row of lists based on this tech article: http://www.ibm. com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/reporting/advanced_report_design/page622.html. Everything works as expected when viewing the active re...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add and support JDBC / DQM functionality for Progress clients

Support for Progress OpenEdge JDBC connections for IBM Cognos Analytics to report critical information. With CA 11.0.2 Progress no longer supports Progress OpenEdge ODBC with no JDBC support for DQM dashboarding/story telling functionality for Pro...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User-friendly preview mode

Preview mode should use the initially set prompt parameters.See document in attachment.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select Own Custom Designed Mapbox Layers

Mapbox Studio allows you to design custom maps, including using your own data. You should be able to use your own Mapbox basemaps, instead of only the 10 or so basemaps provided by Cognos.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Include 'Description' in white space of object box

White space in object box should contain description of report or object. Currently it is wasted white space.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration