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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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RANK in Cognos Report Authoring

We migrated from Cognos 7 to Cognos 11. Users cannot create query calculations. Some users use only basic functionality in the reports. In powerplay there used to RANK option. Please create an option to create RANK column field in Cognos report au...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Extend REST API with GET Specification of Framework Model (XML)

To get the Definitions of the SQL / Tables etc. behind a report we will need to read the XML Definition of the Package used in the report. We already get any information (name, description, xml specification) about the report with the new REST API...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add more data server connections

Add connectors to Azure offerings, particularly SQL Azure.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Provide Extended Agent Audit Reports

Cognos Analytics currently only ships with a narrow set of Audit Reports in regard to Agent Execution. It is not possible to get an easy overview of Runtimes for Agents and their Payload. The Sample Package also does not cover the correct connecti...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Loading Library Visualizations: Please allow us to click more than one per import

From Cognos administration > Library > import. When browsing, we can only import one at a time. shift-click nor ctrl-click are allowed to load more than one visualization at a time.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos Analytics

Hi, the package link is not clickable in report properties and in event/agent properties. This is too strange to open report and event and modify the package. Please let us know how do we make it enable this features. Thanks.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Better support for opening Analysis Studio in Chrome and Edge browsers - include the launch Analysis Studio icon in the Cognos Viewer when opening in the glass interface.

When using the Chrome and Edge browsers it is not possible to open Analysis Studio from a saved report view using the "native" glass interface. When opening the report view from the Cognos viewer opens the static HTML view of the report and the fi...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

missing input validation

Malicious input of attacker can be restricted.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration