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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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Excel Data Tables in Cognos Reports

In order to improve accessibility in Cognos Analytics, allow for the creation of Excel Data Tables using Report Studio when choosing Excel output formats. These would be tables that appear specifically as "Data Tables" in Excel. This would allow f...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Set global parameters in Cognos Lifecycle Manager

Ability to set the use/display value for a parameter once in a project and have it use across multiple reports
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Using Ystart drop zone should result in having an adjusted value axis starting point

If you use the Ystart options in a column chart in dashboarding, the columns will effectively start at the selected Y-value, but the resulting visualisation will just show an empty space below the Y-value.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Link has click event, not accessible with keyboard

FX EDW SIT in the screenshot have Link click event in the backend, when accessing with mouse its working as expected. we are looking for same feature to be accessible with the keyboard. THis has been there in serveral of our reports. an IBM PMR wa...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

508 Compliance : Disabled alerts are not in keyboard tab order

Disabled elements in the report or dashboard (example zooming pecentage option) are not in the keyboard tab order. Zoom button is disabled on all the dashboard. Previously a ticket have been logged for this issue to IBM. IBM Responded "This is dis...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Non Unique Button

Non-Unique button, the save icon and dropdown have similar description as another button. This has been populating in all the dashboards. previously the ticket was logged with IBM, IBM Says this is not really considered as bug, if you click the dr...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

IBM CA Cloud 11.1.7: Audit Package to include the items regarding the roles and/or groups an individual user is in

In the past, when we had Cognos on prem we could run SQL against the content store that would allow to see all the roles and/or groups of an individual user. Our Internal auditors need this information for compliance purpose. Per IBM Support case ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Full support for all Canada Postal Codes (6 digits) in Cognos Analytics 11 Maps

Current support for Canadian Postal Codes in Cognos Analytics 11 Maps is limited to the first 3 digits of the postal code. To satisfy reporting requirements, we are needing the ability to map the geographic areas for all Canadian Postal Codes with...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add more data server connections

Add connectors to Azure offerings, particularly SQL Azure.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Stop pre populating Send Report by email To field with Cognos ID

Description Problem: When user trying to run any with Run as in the background and send report by email the To text box is being repopulated with users Cognos_id which is not a valid email address. Steps to reproduce:goto any report click ... Run ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect