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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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Misuse of label tags

Issue: Some screen readers will not announce an explicit label on non-form elements. Therefore, the associating <label> may not be read as part of the accessible name of this element. Ask: The search box to be put in a form element so the f...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

remove the before and after pseudo elements from the CSS

Issue: There are tags which use the before and after pseudo elements and for people who need to turn off CSS, it may cause the web page to not function properly. Ask: Can we remove the before and after pseudo elements from the CSS?
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Automated process to update global parameters

Global parameters are very useful for different scenarios especially for giving users the right time frame (e.g. last invoice date, last year to consider etc.). Currently there is no option to update global parameters in an automated way. Idea: De...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Allow Filters to be edited by clicking if shown in report

The new reporting tool lacks the capability that Query Studio offered in the shown filters could be removed or edited by clicking on them. The overall style of how they are shown in 11.0.3 are far less superior than what Query Studio offered.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Delivery Option To SFTP Server

Many integration can be done using file exchange between two systems. Cognos can be used to extract data from the source system to be delivered to external system for ingestion. Currently, the only option to deliver data file to another sftp serve...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Publish Package should allow you to enrich the package at time of publish

Currently to enrich the package you have to go to package and run the enrich package. If I am in publishing the package, I would like to be able to enrich the package there without having to open the Cognos browser.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export as a Gantt Chart

Our customer is looking for the ability to export as a Gantt Chart for reports. They would like to be able to select this as an option, similar to Viewing the report in HTML, PDF, XML, and Excel. I have followed other cases for Gantt Charts within...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

allow cognos to burst a report with different email address without the need of an active user account

congos admin and internal security team would prefer not to have to use and active service account user to schedule a report for bursting, rather use an alternate email address that is set in cognos configuration if possible. pain piont of concern...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Link has click event, not accessible with keyboard

FX EDW SIT in the screenshot have Link click event in the backend, when accessing with mouse its working as expected. we are looking for same feature to be accessible with the keyboard. THis has been there in serveral of our reports. an IBM PMR wa...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

508 Compliance : Disabled alerts are not in keyboard tab order

Disabled elements in the report or dashboard (example zooming pecentage option) are not in the keyboard tab order. Zoom button is disabled on all the dashboard. Previously a ticket have been logged for this issue to IBM. IBM Responded "This is dis...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration