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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

Make 11.1 visualization available for active reports

Currently in CA 11.1.3 for active report you only have 11.0 visualizations available. Customer requests also 11.1 visualization to be made available for active reports.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio User Interface

In Report Studio, I' would like to have more options to customize the panels displayed when showing details of the queries: 1. Allow to change width of panels ‘Data Items’ vs ‘Detail Filters' 2. Allow to change height of the 3 panels ‘Detail Fi...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Missing objects path/location in Activities & My Schedules and subscriptions tabs

We are missing information about the object location/path in these two tabs in the properties grid like it used to be in C10 when selection advanced options. It is for Activities tab in Manage and for My Schedules and subscription perspective. Lik...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under 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...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance drill in Maps for a more intuitive workflow

Use case:Currently in a map, if you have the same items represented in the region layer and the points layer for example country and city, and you drill into a specific area based on a navigation path that applies to both layers (ex: Country, City...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 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.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow sorting of scheduled reports by Name

In cognos admininstration under Status > Schedules, Allow sorting the list of scheduled reports by Name. Currently we can sort by Modified Date, Status and by Priority. Quite often I have to visually search through my list of scheduled reports....
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

User-friendly preview mode

Preview mode should use the initially set prompt parameters.See document in attachment.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for spatial datatype in Cognos BI

Nowday many companies have location based data stored in the database. The location based data can be a location or area on the field. Many database vendors supports geo spatial datatype and functions like DB2, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration