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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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DC Searching for members takes a long time

Using a Dynamic Cube and searching for member caption or any other attribute is taking a massive amount of time from Reports. If you search for one member its fine but searching for several at the same time (more than 10) in a dimension with 200.0...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

KPI Visualization for Period over Period Comparison

The new KPI Visualization in 11.1.4 is fantastic! We often show period-over-period comparisons. For example YTD Revenue vs Prior YTD Revenue. It would be great to be able to apply different filters to the base and target values in the existing KPI...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Make searchpath available to extensions

We have an extension to add entries to the context menu (...) of reports and reportviews. These new entries should only appear in specific folders. For example there are two folders: FOLDER1 and FOLDER2. The context menu of all reports/reportviews...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Ability to select dashboard crosstab summarization for rows, columns or both

The "Show summary" property for the crosstab visualization in dashboards provides both row and column summaries. In many instances you may only want to summarize columns, or inversely only rows. It would be very useful if this could be controlled.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Visualizations Vanish when at 0 (or not applicable)

If a "Summary" visualization has a "0" value, can that visualization literally not show up?
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Default delivery option to email with attachment

Default delivery option to email with an attachment - currently we need to click 10 times to run a report with email delivery options but instead, it's a good idea to have an email with attachments run options in my preferences to just email repor...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TopCount function loses logic when drilling up

TopCount function is used in Dimensional reporting (ex top 10). With Interactivity set to Yes: drill down works fine but when drilling up, the topcount logic is lost. With Interactivity set to No: drill down works fine and when drilling up, the to...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Google spanner support as a Data Source

Request is to add support for Google Cloud Spanner as a fully supported data source. I noticed that Tableau and Looker supports it now. Also, we saw that Simba drivers provided Mysql dialect to connect to Cloud Spanner, so it may be easy as it is ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to auto upload custom theme and extension

We need the ability to auto upload custom theme and extension instead of performing manual steps.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Disable User Accounts When Option Checked

In previous versions of Cognos Analytics, a user account could be disabled by placing a check in the appropriate box within the user's advanced profile property sheet. This box, still exists but for whatever reason no longer works as one would exp...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted