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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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breadcrumb trail in Report Studio

Previous versions of the BI product allowed for bread crumb trails to be created within the report to showcase the drill path that you were currently on. The technote here: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21470373shows a way to ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Folder structure within Cognos Mobile App

The ability to create a folder structure within the Cognos Mobile App so that the entry screen to downloaded reports is not cluttered and can be organised into groupings
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Life Cycle Manager

In life cycle manager the product does not support comparing Excel reports in Cognos. It only supports comparing in HTML and PDF. Could comparing excel be added to the product.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

C11.1.1 Ability to control default show/hide of Properties pane

Default option when creating a new report is Show properties pane. Users are getting confused as why it is blank. Ability to control default show/hide of Properties pane will help entire user population.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Audit table not showing Client IP

The COGIPF_REMOTEIPADDR column of COGIPF_USERLOGON table not showing the machine ip of the user.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CA Security View for Administrators

There should be an easy way for a CA Administrator to review security for users or groups. At the moment, we can't select a user and see what their membership is. This would also be useful to review what membership a group has to other groups.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Font Options text in Bullet Charts

Working on creating a dashboard, I am using a bullet chart. I have an Actual bar and a Target. Then I have it repeated (rows). I find that I can't change the text color on the Row text, it's black. I also don't see where I can customize the color ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set Dashboard Text Items and Visualization Titles to Reflect Parameters

In report studio, a text item can be set to be equal to the value of a parameter, allowing titles to show what that page/visualization/table is being filtered by. For example, if there is a filter by state, and the current filter is on Ohio, the t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Post-Aggregation to Active Reports

Need to be able to add Post-Aggregation to Active Reports to properly calculate so a viable offline solution can be provided that is in line with Standard Reports. Right now without the ability to do post-aggregation the % value on the viz chart i...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to query Content Store to find schedules for particular email recipient

Cognos should have ability to query content store database, to retrieve details like - How many schedules have a particular email id as recipient. It may be possible via audit, but only when the schedules are running.- How many schedules are creat...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration