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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 Module - Select Unmatched Column Values

Right now, the data module has an option of joining 2 tables using a join key but restricts to only match the values of the selected columns but does not allow 'not equal to' operator or 'Greater than or lesser than' operator.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Control Font size and height in cognos tabs - folders exploration

It is not possible to change the font size and the height of the row by default in Cognos tab exploration.The name of the object is not readable as it's cut in the middle. Reduce the size of the font will allow to display more characters.The numbe...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Enable Drillthroughs from PDF Files opened in Acrobat Reader

For security reasons, our users are not allowed to open PDF files inline in their browser. Instead, these files always opened externally in Acrobat Reader. However, drillthroughs are not possible from there: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/link...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Location based language maps in the visualization map

Location based language maps in the visualisation map
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Filter Cascading functionality in Product and sub product is expected in Cognos Analytics Dashboard

Here we have two Data items such as Product and sub-Product in this it should be as parent and child releaionship for ex if we select DDA product only DDA releated subproducts Should be visible in Prompt
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Add Support for SLES 15.x

I received a follow up response from our Product Management team. They confirmed the following: Hi Mark, yes, we currently don't support SLES 15.x. It will be great if you can ask the client to log an IDEA on this so we can track this request for ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Delivered

Pie chart and other visualizations only displays either percent or numbers. It cannot be both.

We are trying to change the format of the measure used in pie chart from percent to number but it does not work. We would like to have a checkbox of having both numbers and percent format.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Google BIG QUERY

We would like to request the support of Google Big Query
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Exploration - Relationship Diagram Times Out

When an exploration relationship takes too long, it will throw a timeout error after exactly 120 seconds: "Your request to load the relationship diagram timed out". This prevents users from being able to see the Starting Points and derive insight ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Ability to monitor Cognos Product roles vs. License Roles on Cognos

We use Cognos BI across our organization for reporting purposes; we use Cognos to deliver solutions to our clients; We have long time challenged with understanding how the Cognos product roles (Eg. System Admin, Authors, Consumer etc) mapped to Co...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered