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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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Export a report filtered results to excel

I need to export a results froma a html report where I have applied some filter on a results. I don't want to submit again the report to execute in excel format, because I lose my filter
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A mobile focused Dashboard Template

I know there is an app called IBM Cognos Analytics Mobile and it's purpose is to show dashboard and exploration created via desktop. Unfortunately, a designed dashboard on desktop doesn't fit a mobile device and metrics just render blandly. My ide...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Ability to create 'Folders' in 'Data source Connections' in admin portal

Please add ability to create 'folders' in 'Data source connections' in admin portal 'configuration tab'
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

URL Integration API to integrate Cognos Analytics 11 User Interface into embedded applications

Need the ability to integrate Cognos Analytics user interface into embedded applications. Similar to the capability we had with Cognos 10.2.2 to embed reports and components. Included must be the ability to pass parameters and pass logon/logoff na...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dataset as source for Dynamic Cubes

We need fast dimensional models, for dashboarding and reports etc. it is not always big data and perfect star schemas, but with datasets and uploaded files, Cognos Analytics would have a great boost for the dimensional model using them in Cube Des...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Expose capability/customization for report delivery options

We would invite to have an option to hide/show per user role/group delivery options when running in background, so that we have option to deactivate local save or deactivate send via email if we need to plus option to change the default selection ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Open a URL in a separate tab when pressing and holding CTRL key

There is no convenient way to open a URL in a new browser tab in Cognos 11, for example opening a report in Authoring in a new tab.Pressing and holding CTRL and clicking on a URL is commonly used for opening a URL in a new tab. Not so in Cognos 11...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to retain pie chart size intact when show values is enabled

It would be nice if pie charts didn't randomly change their size when show values is enabled.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Receive notifications/alerts when Cognos environment goes down

Receive notifications/alerts when Cognos environment goes down
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Archive file location active checking and failover

We have encountered issues when the archive location may not be available at system startup that there is no reconnection attempt made. The system just continues to startup without warning other than logging this in the cogserver log. When jobs ru...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration