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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


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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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disable email notification during cognos startup

"disable email notification during cognos startup"Currently, there is no proper way to switch off this functionality.I believe that this functionality would not be use friendly if there is no proper way to switch off or change the email recipient.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add advanced setting to cancel jobs in waiting status

Would like to have an Advanced Setting that would limit how long Jobs or Scheduled reports are stuck in a "Waiting" state.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Assign different icons to the different data points as per category on maps

Hi Team, There is enhancement requirement in cognos analytics version 12.0 dashboard to assign more icons as per category in maps. For example: If we have category column in our dataset that consists of different categories like type1,type2,type3 ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Allow copying of individual report pages between two different Cognos systems

It is currently not possible to copy individual report pages between two different Cognos systems. You can copy complete reports between two Cognos systems. You can also copy individual report pages within the same Cognos system, but not between t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add Pattern to Dashboard Visualizations for Visually Impaired

Similar to traditional reports, it would be valuable to have the ability to add a pattern to to Dashboard visualizations in order to support the visually impaired. The UI used to choose palettes could be used to define a pattern to apply to visual...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Editing icons

The ability to edit an icon no longer appears in Cognos Analytics.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drawing a circle with radius for a latitude longitude point in the visualization map

Drawing a circle with radius for a latitude longitude point
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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

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 ...
over 5 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