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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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Data Modules Relinking View To New View With Different Name

Currently we have test environment and production environment for both the database and Cognos , Views that are being created on test database have a different name than the ones on production . Users are creating data modules on test server using...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add .Jpeg/.png widget

There is a need for end users to have the ability to add a picture of their choice to Cognos Analytics dashboards. The current methods are restricted to: -url photo location -Custom gallery generated by an administrator Neither of these two opti...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add an option to open dashboard in edit mode directly

To edit dashboard you have to open it and then click "Edit or preview". Many beginners do not know that and they ask us and they spend our time. They also say that they do not have permissions to edit dashboards but in fact they have. Because firs...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Extension Items languaje localization

It would be very useful to gain the option to localize the names of the extesions items, such of dashbords/reports/.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Microsoft SQL Server 2022

Microsoft recently released their new database server.Microsoft SQL Server 2022 is neither tested nor listed as supported query/ content store database for IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.4. Looking forward to see this as supported datasource for IBM Co...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Filtering Linked Tables in Data Modules without breaking the link

Master Data Modules are shared globally in our Cognos Analytics environment to allow users to link to their own data modules containing their fact data. This allows the business community to easily reap the benefits of dimensional data (navigation...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add week numbers to the calendar/date prompt widget in Cognos reporting

Add week numbers to the calendar/date prompt widget
over 6 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.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to provide a tenant specific deployment-folder

As an tenant administrator I would like to export or import content from Cognos analytics. You can assign a export/import-definition to a specific tenant. The ZIP-files with content will end up in the deployment folder. There is just one deploymen...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under 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.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration