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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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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...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Delivered

Reduce the size of boxes in Recent list

Reduce the size of the boxes displaying the Recently used items.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Planning Analytics on Cloud as a data source for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

TM1 on Cloud has evolved to Planning Analytics (Cloud based) and Cognos on Cloud needs support for Planning Analytics as a data source. Cognos on Cloud did support TM1 on Cloud so this is the next logical move as customers migrate from TM1 on Clou...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Cognos 11 Report Context filter not passed to Related link

In Cognos 11, the user has been using the context filter value to pass value to the related links drill through. But in the report output the passed context filter value is not getting reflected.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Maintenance of Images library in Cognos Analytic Cloud

Managing Images in Cognos Analytics Cloud is not convenient:- when adding images to reports, we are not able to browse folders to locate images.- the synchronisation mechanism between our server and IBM cloud servers is handling only 1 single flat...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

ReportStudio - same clipboard functionality in all browsers

In ReportStudio it is not possible to copy and paste parts of the report between different sessions. In Microsoft Internet it is possible to copy queries and so on and paste them to another ReportStudio session/ development window.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Delivered

Add colours to icons for quicker identification of object

Having all the icons black can make identifying folders/reports/packages etc difficult. If they were coloured as per Cognos 10 then it would make differentiating them a lot quicker on the eye. Especially folders as they no longer appear at the top...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Currently from the Cognos 11.0.10 Dashboards we cannot click individual bars or measures and drill through to reports corresp

Currently from the Cognos 11.0.10 Dashboards we cannot click individual bars or measures and drill through to reports corresponding to that measure only. This prevents users from viewing specific data counts that they see in the the Reports or in ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Added new column/field into source file(.xls) then uploaded into CA but changes not retrieving in Data module

Created Data Module by using excel files. Added new column/field into source files(.xls) then uploaded into cognos analytics but changes not retrieving into Data module. We need this functionality to avoid recreate Data module because we receive f...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered