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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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Multi select drop down filter like MS Excel

Currently when user looks for multi select prompts, we have only check box and List drop down available. It would be good to have option to have drop down Multi select feature similar to MS Excel to select multiple values.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Vertical Bullet Visualization

In the Dashboard tool, I would like to have a vertical Bullet Graph. The actual Bullet Graph seem only offer the possibility to display it horizontally.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allowing incremental load for datasets

The customer needs to upload incremental data on a daily basis.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Additional Audit info needed

My business users would like to see how users are exporting the reports. Are they using excel pdf, csv. How often this is occurring.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement Save to filesystem when running report interactively in background in Cognos Analytics

Implement Save to filesystem when running report interactively in background in Cognos Analytics
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DataItem's and Filter's names changing/notchanging both in C11.0.5 and C11.0.6

Data items' names are changing in copied queries.Flter's names are changing in copied queries. Data item's names within the calculations are changing in copied queries. Also they are NOT changing when the queries are reffered. Feature of changing ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have an option to search in a location, a subdirectory

Sometimes there are too many results for the search engine. It will be interesting to limit the search to a subdirectory.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make the Cognos pop-up "validation" or "running report" contextual to its browser tab area

When validating or running a report and switching to the home screen or to another report the hourglass pop-up message remains in the front persistently. Our expectation is the pop-up message "Validating with report server" remains in the tab area...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

DASHBOARDS-Ability to define IMAGE URL based on Data items/Calcs

No description provided
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Alert on Cryptographic key near expiry

As per http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21341113 the cryptographic keys expire after 365 days (default setting), we recently fell foul of this as our keys expired and Cognos stopped working. We would like an alert when these are ne...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration