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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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Please add more MDX functions

While Cognos does have a number of MDX functions, a few important functions are missing. While it is possible to find workarounds for the missing functions, these are invariably less performant than using the native functions. With the possible ex...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Unreliable Component Combinations

Issue: When elements have multiple Namers or multiple Describers, screen reader precedence differs wildly. To minimize these differences and ensure consistent screen reader output, follow ANDI's methodology. Elements are using more than 1 "Namers"...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Misuse of label tags

Issue: Some screen readers will not announce an explicit label on non-form elements. Therefore, the associating <label> may not be read as part of the accessible name of this element. Ask: The search box to be put in a form element so the f...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

remove the before and after pseudo elements from the CSS

Issue: There are tags which use the before and after pseudo elements and for people who need to turn off CSS, it may cause the web page to not function properly. Ask: Can we remove the before and after pseudo elements from the CSS?
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

ALL Mail recipients in (Job) schedules visible at first sight

When creating a schedule, the user has the possibility to use main mail recipient, cc recipient, and bcc recipient. When manipulating a schedule later, ALL defined recipient types (main, cc, bcc) should show up at first sight, without necessity to...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ability to remove the Archive tab of report versions

Customer would like to have an option to remove user/group/role access to the Archives tab in the report versions pane.PMR reference is TS001418135 - it seems the PMR ID still requires old PMR format.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Datamodule Queryitem reference without prefix [M2].

Datamodule Queryitem reference without prefix [M2]. Queryitems in Datamodules have a prefix like [M2]. Is difficult to migrate a report from a frameworkmanager package to a datamodule that contains the frameworkmanager package and external datasou...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Specify 'No data contents' in RAVE-Visualisations

For lists, crosstabs,... it is possible to specify what appears, when no data content is available: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.0.0?topic=fd-specify-what-appears-data-containers-that-contain-no-data It would be nice to have the...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Dark mode for Cognos Analytics

I love the dark mode homepage for the application, however the rest of the apps are all in a light mode. Would love to have a dark mode that is easier on the eyes. The user should be able to choose dark oder light mode and the value should be save...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Ability to use Named Sets from Dynamic Cube as slicer/context filter in Studios

Named sets are a great addition to cubing technology, which are similar to creating "public" version of custom subsets that were available in PowerPlay. But they cannot be simply added to a report as a slicer or context filter.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration