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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 custom sub-levels via extensions

We want to limit the folder access to the clients by customizing the left side navigation bar and adding custom menus. Because of the folder structure and the topics, the best would be if we could add sub-menus. However we can't use the following ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - allow users to abbreviate multiple widgets at one time

allow users to abbreviate multiple KPI widgets at one time. As is, users can only abbreviate one widget at a time. Typically on a dashboard, there are multiple KPIs, and it's likely that if one needs to be abbreviated, all need to be abbreviated.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - when opening a data source, have a recents folder like in main navigation

when opening a dashboard data source, have a recents folder just like in main navigation
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

WEX Analytical support for FileNet Containers.

For WEX (Watson Explorer Analytical), there are a set of applications required to enable communication between WEX and FileNet. On the WEX side, we install CPE Client. On the FileNet side, we install a war file (esp8services.war) on Websphere “ES ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Wrong output format in Audit Table

Customer is asking for a more accurate audit logging in the area of output format. Due to a bug the only format being logged is XHTML also a ad-hoc report is executed in an different format.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Users can't see the QUEUE numbers.

Display the QUEUE number on the screen before the report is executed. This allows users to see QUEUE and know the crowded conditions.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data tables - ability to select elements in filter (not just deselect)

At the moment in an filter in a data table you can only deselect elements. It would be great, if you are able to select values as well.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Align Prompt Items horizontally

It would be great if there is a possibility for the Checkbox Prompt or Radio Button Prompt to align the dataitems horizontally and not just vertically per default. Sometimes it would be helpful to change the alignment to save space on the report p...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Automatically calculate data type

System: Cognos Analytics ReportingActor: User wanting to develop a report or explore data Cognos Analytics Reporting is used to explore data and produce reports, both of which lead to making decisions. Description: When performing a calculation us...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MISSING SEARCH OPTION ON FILTER CONDITION DIALOG

Missing search option on filter condition dialog when creating custom filter for date code and year of year code. This feature was present in previous versions, so please add it.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration