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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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optionally disconnect filter in filter banner from widget in dashboard window

if I set a filter in the filter banner for a tab or for all tabs, this filter is valid for all widgets in the dashboard window. It would be nice if we can, like we can disconnect widgets from each other, also disconnect a widget from a filter in t...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

RHEL SELinux Support required for Cognos Analytics

At this time SELinux is not a supported configuration for Cognos Analytics. Our internal default policy has changed with Redhat 7 and by default SELinux is activated. We would need Cognos Analytics to follow the default policies from Redhat 7 SELi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Add box to Dashboard texts

Add surround marker and column value labels with boxes - Screenshot Add Report like Font and colors in Axis Labels in Column Chart You have added that in KPI widget in 11.2.0 but not in others Problem - QBRs are going to Power BI
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Include Documents in Archiving

Content archiving is currently only supporting report output versions. Uploaded documents from Cognos for Microsoft Office (ClassID 180) are not picked of the archiving background task and cannot be archived to an external repository like fileshar...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to add tables to both defined views and unions

Using Data Modules, currently after creating a view or union, there is no way to edit the view or union to add new sources to be included. We have the ability to add or substract existing elements from the original view but no way to include new s...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

When adding chart values change the background behind the value itself

When chart values are added in certain visuals it is very hard to read the values. Giving the ability to change the background colour will improve the functionality. See image for example.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Option live query mode and cache

For most reports it's not relevant, the data is not realtime. For those reports I want to cache the data (within the report) for performance reasons. Whan i can choose a render option for a report Live or Cache (with a cache frequenty) Cognos will...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

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

Resurrect the functionality for Event Studio Agent Views

We have used Event Studio Reports for years to help identify changes to data coming from our customers and suppliers. This product has been great in helping to identify product engineering changes or new customers/suppliers etc. The data from our ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Restrict the number of recipients when bursting

Cognos can't restrict the number of recipients when bursting. This is currently addressed by looking at the limits imposed at the SMTP level, or informing Cognos users of this limitation. This helps for short term but if we have a new user who mak...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration