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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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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

Ordering the fields on Data Module.

Ordering the fields on Data Module.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for Javascript for Esri Maps for IBM Cognos

Esri Maps for Cognos provides Esri mapping and GIS capabilities in Cognos reports. Esri requires JavaScript support in order for Esri Maps for IBM Cognos to work. The SDK + IBM Cognos v11 does not support embedding JavaScript/HTML in interactive m...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unreliable Component Combinations

Issue: When elements have multiple Namers or multiple Describers, screen reader precedence differs wildly. To minimize these differences and ensure consistent screen reader output, follow ANDI's methodology. Elements are using more than 1 "Namers"...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Misuse of label tags

Issue: Some screen readers will not announce an explicit label on non-form elements. Therefore, the associating <label> may not be read as part of the accessible name of this element. Ask: The search box to be put in a form element so the f...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

remove the before and after pseudo elements from the CSS

Issue: There are tags which use the before and after pseudo elements and for people who need to turn off CSS, it may cause the web page to not function properly. Ask: Can we remove the before and after pseudo elements from the CSS?
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Reset prompts and run option should clear the prior selected prompts or do not use the word 'Reset'.

Currently, the 'Reset prompts and run' option only takes you back to the prompt page. It does not clear the prior selected prompt choices. The word 'Reset' is misleading. User believe it should clear the prior selected prompts. Make this option cl...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Monthly subscription

CA11 introduced 'subscriptions' which currently only allows selection on day (monday -> sunday) and time. It would be useful to also have monthly/quaterly... options, same as what is available in scheduling. All the more as they appear as regul...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automate Housekeeping for \temp and \data

Currently it is awkward to clean up \temp and \data. Only the product knows which files are in actual use.If you had process crashes during report executions and or of the product itself temporary files might not be properly removed during a resta...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Samples installer containing all Cognos samples

Currently there are a few sources for cognos samples. We would like to have one single installer for all cognos samples. From the installer it should be possible to select the required samples like Transformer Cubes, Dynamic Cubes, new CA samples ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration