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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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Include the ID of all objects related to that object in the REST API

When using the documented REST API in 11.2.4, you get the searchPath of objects back that are related to that object. For example, when you query a folder ID using the /groups API, you get back all of the groups that are assigned to that folder. T...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future 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

Column Text Rotation for Crosstabs/Lists

We would like to be able to rotate the text of a column label in crosstabs/lists. Currently, practically only 90 degrees rotation is supported (using the Direction & justification property>Writing mode). Specifically, we would like to use t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

When adding chart values change the background behind the value itself

When chart values are added in certain visuals it is very hard to read the values. Giving the ability to change the background colour will improve the functionality. See image for example.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

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

Editing icons

The ability to edit an icon no longer appears in Cognos Analytics.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Issue with Cognos Axes

Issue with Axes in Cognos reports, please go thru enclosed document, it has the details
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Put Interactive Map Widget Official in the Cognos BI release and give support

Put Interactive Map Widget Official in the Cognos BI release and give full support for it in Workspace. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ba-pp-reporting-scripting_techniques-page644/
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IIS vulnerability related to Cognos required settings

IIS vulnerability: The concern regarding "Allow unlisted file name extensions" in IIS has been raised with us previously and has been reviewed by our Development team. Unfortunately our Development team have confirmed that at this time "Allow unli...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted