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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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Enable Watch Rules in Cognos Analytics

We used to be able to create watch rules in Cognos 10X but that doesn't look like a case in Cognos Analytics. Customers can upgrade / import rules along with other content (Content Store) from C10 to C11 but they cannot create new rules.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Exact match not listed first in search results

Search is not working as expected. I would expect an exact match to be first or at least at the top of the search results. Sometimes an exact match is listed 20th in the list. Usage of filters is irrelevant.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Maintenance page instead of Cognos start page only for standard users, not for admins

If we have problems with Cognos, we want to withdraw access from all users except for admins so data / reports can be tested after successful repairs. The Cognos information banner does not help, because it is overlooked. Furthermore, users can by...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Add nested menu items for the actions menu

At the moment any menu item added to com.ibm.bi.contentApps.listViewMenu will appear as an additional row. There is a finite amount of space. I'd like to have an option to add nested menu items where clicking the row would open additional menu ite...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Single Sign On using SAML2 for Cognos

SAML2 is becoming an industry standard and many vendors are moving to supporting it. Using SAML2 will provide Cognos with another method for external authentication. SAML2 is an XML-based framework for communicating user authentication, entitlemen...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Tuple and other OLAP functions need to be available in Dashboards

Need for Tuple and other OLAP functions in Dashboards
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Change size of the label KPI

We want to have the ability to change the label size in a KPI.
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Keep HTML view of report in browser when changing it to Excel version

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, users ran a report with prompts on the report page with the List in HTML. From the Viewer they would select Run > Excel, which would open a separate window browser Window for the Excel download. The original Cognos V...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

I would like to preserve the new line character(\n) when uploading data files.

When I upload an Excel or CSV data file to Cognos Analytics, new line characters contained within text columns are automatically converted to space characters. On the other hand, new line characters included in database text columns are handled wi...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Copy Conditional Styles from one report to another

In case of developing a group of reports within one project the styles the design of data tables is supposed to be the same. And it is hardly convinient to create the same Conditional Styles in every single report when you have dozens of them. In ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted