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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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Geographic Location properties for township, section, range, quarter when setting representation to Goegraphic

Currently when you load a file, create a date module from a file or do an exploration from a file you can't selection the Township, range, section or quarter as a geographic representation. So if I want to show the top producing oil and/or gas w...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide a standard, intuitive, approach to applying changes on flyout panels

Since the initial release of Cognos 11 and its use of "flyout" panels there has always been confusion about how to apply changes that are made to property values in the flyout. Some panels have a "Done" button. Some have an "Apply" button. Some ha...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support try_cast Trino function in Cognos

There is an interesting function called "try_cast" for Trino but it doesn't work in Cognos. It leads to a syntax error when executing the report. Our customers often get conversion errors when using "cast" function, for example from varchar to dec...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics content toggle menu functionality ehancement

The normal behavior in cognos analytics is if you run a report the report output shows up in the drop menu, then you can toggle away or close it if you don't need it anymore. That's fine except when you want to run the same report multiple times w...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Security issue with error messages when login in the portal with valid/invalid user ID

Normalize same error message during login with valid or invalid user ID. Error messages are different and allow someone to get valid user IDs.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copied objects should not retain the "Created" and "Modified" dates of the object it's copied from

Copied objects retain the "Created" and "Modified" date of the object from which they are copied. Please change this so these dates default to the current date/time when the object is created (copied). This would be more meaningful and helpful. Th...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Less time consuming way to make negative numbers red in a list report

It's so easy to put negative numbers in brackets but to colour them red you have to use a conditional format on each column. This can be time consuming and laborious when the list report is very wide. No less than 12 mouse clicks are required for ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Line between two different points on a Map visualization

Our client is looking to add the capability to see lines between one Latitude and another as well as one Longitude and another. Currently, we only have the option to add one Latitude and one Longitude. A great use case for this is for understand a...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted