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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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Reading data from message hubs like kafka in reports or dashboards directly

Customer is looking for a functionality to read real time data from their production line into charts directly and then persist in the database.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[MIF] Remove pop-up blocker disabled requirement from product

Pls remove requirement for popup-blocker "disabled".
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Hijri calendar support to IBM Cognos Analytics

Enable Hijri ( Um Al Qura ) calendar support in Cognos Analytics: User profile preferences "Calendar type" (like Gregorian and Japanese Imperial) in each of the following: Reporting and Dashboards, the Data format dialog, when formatting as date o...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Disable "Reset prompts and run" on a report or folder

TS001246554: Need ability to disable "Reset prompts and run" option on all drill-through reports where the parameters are passed from master reports. Re-setting the prompt page on a drill through report does not yield in easily understood prompt c...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics 11.x SDK support for .Net Core 6

Infor utilizes Cognos in a Multi-Tenant Cloud environment. All of the Infor applications running in our MT Cloud environment are required to handle standard API calls that are required to add/update/delete a tenant within that application. There a...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Filters on Schedule list

We can see the list of schedules by user, status and priority but having the option to look at schedules with a filter on the TRIGGER name would be really useful. It could just be a free text where "starts with" or "contains" would be the options....
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Change font size and color for value labels in dashboards

There is no ability to change the size and color of the font for value labels in dashboards. The font is fairly small and does not change with resizing.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Functionality already exists

Recent Reports on Content Page

In Cognos Analytics 11.2.1 the content homepage (?perspective=content) has some tabbed folder by default: My content, Team content, Custom folder and My portal pages. So this is the perfect starting point for our consumers. It would be very helpfu...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 3 Not under consideration

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

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