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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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Active Reports not aggregating percentages

The active reports do not aggregate percentages accurately when aggregating up a hierarchy. MHT file can be provided with an example.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More control over repeater in Dashboards

The repeater functionality in Dashboard visualization currently generates one graph per category but does not provide control over how many categories to display before moving to the next row/column. This functionality would be very useful in gett...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Error messages in Cognos BI are unclear.

When users are sharing a report url with a user who doesn't have the rights to see the report we get the following message: 'CCL-PLG-0001 Failed to load the pluggable shared library', which is really unclear. A better message would be ' The user d...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create Jobs without write permission to the report

We have a enviroment with multiple tenants. Every tenant is a complete different customer. Alle customers have the same datasource (database) and also the same basic standard reports. All the standard/basic reports are administrated trough us (Cog...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to upload images

Customer would like to allow users to upload their own images
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing option to set interactive connections between visualizations in reporting

We would like to create our dashboards in reporting but to simulate what dashboard can do we need an option to set up interactive connections between visualization enabling gestures like filtering data inone vis based on selecting in another one w...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to Cognos HTS Notification delete hotfix for Version 10.2.2

The hotfix that was provided for deleting the HTS notifications from the database does have a limitation where we are not able to select a day and time for scheduling the deletes. This needs the scheduling ability with a day and time. E.g. Every S...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos to force users to open a specific browser

We are on C 11.0.13 Fix Pack 1 in Production Environment. This is regarding browsers. Since Cognos URL have issues with Edge, and lots of our client machines are set to Edge as default browser's and when they receive E-mails with report links etc,...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 Content Backup/Restore

We would like the new Create and Manage Content to have the same abilities as the current Admin Console.., example being able to select a folder to backup to... PLUS, have the ability to lock down the Content Store access for Report Admin's... we ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dymanic cross-tabulation with process execution

I would like to know how to display data in Cognos from a pivot table with process execution existing in IBM planning. In IBM planning there is a function to add an action button and you can add a process (as in the screenshot) and you can also sy...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration