Skip to Main Content
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


ADD A NEW IDEA

Cognos Analytics

Showing 3687

Button to move between Tabs

while working with the Dashboard with more than 4 to 5 tabs. Movement of one Tab to another Tab is easier. This same feature is available in Planning Analytics workspace if you wanted to check
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Exact match not listed first in search results

Search is not working as expected. I would expect an exact match to be first or at least at the top of the search results. Sometimes an exact match is listed 20th in the list. Usage of filters is irrelevant.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Single Sign On using SAML2 for Cognos

SAML2 is becoming an industry standard and many vendors are moving to supporting it. Using SAML2 will provide Cognos with another method for external authentication. SAML2 is an XML-based framework for communicating user authentication, entitlemen...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide/show/enable/disable dashboard filter bar based on custom role/group or setting

We have a scenario where the dashboard author would like end users to interact with the dashboard but not allow them to change any filters in the filters bar so that the user experience is consistent. This is helpful in a scenario where if the aut...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Tuple and other OLAP functions need to be available in Dashboards

Need for Tuple and other OLAP functions in Dashboards
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Member tree for OLAP source in dashboading is missing

Member tree for OLAP source in dashboading is missing, only metadata tree is avaiable. Metadata tree is not user friendly it is developer point of view.For example this feature was in Cognos Workspace Advanced were OLAP source can be viewed as met...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Save to Any Network Location when Scheduling Cognos Report

Currently in Cognos Analytics we only have the option to save a report as XLS, PDF, etc, to any network location when running the report interactively. When scheduling and saving a report to XLS we're limited to what network location we've specifi...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow mixed case for userids for Cognos/CPD

Cause & Issue: Currently, our user IDs in OpenPages are stored in uppercase During our migrating of OpenPages to CP4D, we found that CP4D stores its user IDs in lowercase This has led to the user sync job between CPD4 and OpenPages creating a ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Submitted

Audit tables with userfriendly content

We use audit-db a lot, mainly for run and usage statistics and for trouble solving. In order to make the result more readable/understandable we do a lot of string conversions etc. This makes audit reports and dataset refresh slow. The retrieval of...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Be able to Add new Tab Icons in Dashboards

If you want to have several tabs in a dashobaord, you want to be able to add you own custom icons that matches what you normally use in your business and not only som standard icons. I would like to be able to add new icons under the "Individual t...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration