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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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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

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...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Vertical Scroll Bar color in List Visualization

In Dashboarding the List Visualization displays a vertical scroll bar. When using a dark color background for the List Visualization the scroll bar remains white. This makes the Visualization visually unappealing. Request that the scroll bar color...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide live/refresh schedule connection types to excel file uploads feature and allow users to create prompts in Dashboards

Releasing many newer versions every year since 2015 is waste without thinking of adding live/schedule refresh options for excel file uploads like Tableau. This is where Cognos is mainly lagging behind because many of the excel customers creating t...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Manage Default Action for Reports

Currently, all newly-created reports have the Default Portal Action of "View most recent report." This can be changed for an individual report by going into its Properties > Report > Advanced, but there is currently no mechanism to globally ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Server Connection Routing Rule Support

For authenticating Kerberos JDBC data server connections, it is necessary to have all routing requests handled by specific Kerberos JDBC dispatchers. In an attempt to use Group/Role routing tags for dispatcher routing, the data server connections ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 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...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for webfonts via CSS in globalreportstyles to local browsers for reports

Support for webfonts via CSS in globalreportstyles to local browsers for reports TS001303419PH03961 REGULAR FLANDERS FONTS ARE NOT CONSIDERED USING FIREFOX ESR AND IE11
about 6 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.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Get path to reports back in job definitions

In CA 11.1.7: After the removal of "Classic view" from the "job definition" interface it is no longer possible to see exactly which report is included in a job. We used to have the /../ -"icon" we could put the mouse over to get the path to the re...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration