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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,


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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


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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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Dashboard: Have some of the Properties accessible to users as Prompts

Your Dashboards are starting to get better but some of the Abilities/Properties are stuck in either Show ALL or NONE to users depending on their Capabilities/Permissions Some Properties would be great to have them as part of the Dashboard as Promp...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dashboard Save As show Recent Saved Folder NOT Team Content root

When creating Different Version of a Dashboard, each time I want to save a New Version, I would go to Save As and see my Recent Folder which I have saved Previous VersionsYet, each Time I go to Save As, it brings me back to Team Content (root) whi...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Search for values when creating filter in interactive mode

When a report is created and saved in interactive mode. Users have ability to create custom filters. When creating the filter, there is no option to search for the values. Instead the users have to scroll through the value list.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

upload images as capability for users, not only for admin

Have the option to upload images (extension) as a reporting and dashboarding creator so self-service users are again less dependant from the administrator. This option should be a capability so the administrator can allow or deny this to different...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support rendering of Mapbox maps in PDF with "show values" property

Map visualizations are rendered in the browser as HTML but the ability to render maps showing values in PDF would increase adoption among our client base. This will be especially true when custom polygons are supported. The initial zoom level (e.g...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Losing Focus on Which Query I am working in Query Explorer

When I am working on a Query, I am losing the Focus, I mean I am unable to see by highlighting on Focus or something so that I know which query I am working with. I'm not sure, if this is a requested feature or if it is already part of releases af...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Scheduling With Select and Search Prompt

The Select and Search, in the Report Viewer, prompt displays differently when Interactivity turned on or off. The display is not consistent when creating schedules and selecting prompt settings. When interactivity is off(No) the legacy S&S Pro...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Format Axis Min Max

We request the ability to change the min and max boundaries of each axis.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

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.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Ability to select the ranges for heat palette for geographic heatmap

Ability to define ranges for heat palette in mapping capabilities.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release