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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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Detailed descriptions on reports or other objects do not show

In version 10 easy to see the detailed descriptions on reports or other objects. In version, 11 the only way I can figure out how to see these descriptions is to individually click on each one
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Cognos Analytics on Cloud: Burst Report to File System

Burst Report to File System isn't available on Cloud. Either Share Network drive on Cloud or need to map to client's on-prem network share drive.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Allow schedules to be edited from upcoming activities admin view.

From the Cognos Analytics Administration portal the user should be able to select upcoming schedules. From the resulting list the user should be able to edit the schedule with normal schedule management functions as allowed by the capabilities ass...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Custom URL pass Locale()

In cognos 11.X you can not pass the locale by using run.outputLocale through a URL no more. Support advised to open a RFE
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Capture source reports for report views in Audit DB

Capture source reports for report views in audit database when report views are being executed. This information is crucial when customers want to perform content store audit and select reports not being used.Especially in case when end users work...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Enable Report Studio to generate PDF reports with bookmarks and navigation pane

We are converting reports from another BI platform. These reports are large with lots of groups within them. The other BI platform generates a PDF navigation pane on the left hand side using PDF bookmarks. This allows the user to quickly jump to t...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Delivered

Guage Chart with single value and capability to custom color it

Need guage chart with single color so we can color it based on a metric % and the color palette can be custom as well. Many of our customers are demanding that for reports and dashboards.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Allow for more then one Custom Folder for a given Role

11.0.6 brings new feature in the form of Custom Folders that allow for buttons to folders to be placed in the left hand pane of the Glass Interface. You are unfortunately restricted to just a single Custom Button per role.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Adjust measure axis scale within dashboard visualizations

Often times values in thousands or millions can make a major impact and to be able to view those variances currently in dashboard visualizations is difficult. This impacts all Cognos end users. Particularly those in finance.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Request 100% Stacked Column Rave 2 Viz in CA11

Request is for a 100% stacked column chart. Via the Cognos 11 viz available online, that is not a current choice: https://www.ibm.com/communities/analytics/cognos-analytics-blog/cognos-business-intelligence-cognos-analytics-all-visualizations/
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered