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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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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...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Select and Search Prompt at global parameters

to pick values for global parameters by a "Select and Search Prompt" (available at reports) would make it more comfortable
about 5 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...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable Full Multitenancy features with Cognos Analytics UI

Currently the old Cognos Connection is required to use Multi-Tenancy features in Cognos Analytics. Customers want to have all features available using only the new Cognos Analytics UI.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Mobile: Other option to create Legacy studios and Manage button in browser

We are unable to view the Other option to create Legacy studios and Manage button in browser (not from cognos mobile app) from Mobile.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Unavailability of 'Save the report as a report view' option for Delivery in Jobs

We could not find an option called "Save the report as a report view" in Analytics View to save the report as a report view for a report in the job from the report properties, so we are unable to view the report details from the Job when a report ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Self service for Top or Bottom function

The standard selection for the "Top or Bottom" function in the report studio, is just the KPI of the crosstab.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CA hyperlinks

The use of Hyperlinks in CA have changed compared to C10.xcertain URLs do not work, displaying a blank page.The user should be notified if the website they are attempting to access via HTML prevents the use of iframe.See details in the Use Case be...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Added a 'highlighter' color option that would allow sections of a report image to be highlighted

Added a 'highlighter' color option (e.g. translucent) that would allow sections of a report image to be highlighted either by using the pen or a drawing object (e.g. rectangle) instead of just underlined by a pen or outlined by a box.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Showing icons in RA for the queryitems the same as in data module

Showing icons in RA for the queryitems as in data module
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release