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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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Dashboard Crosstab - Ability to rename 'Summary' row

For certain crosstabs, the aggregate or 'Summary' row as it is labelled is not always the ideal wording for the aggregate, and we have had users asking if it could be renamed in instances to 'Total' for example. This would be helpful from a usabil...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Share and embed option for Poweplay reports and cubes

We have large base of powerplay users who access powerplay reports/cubes from Microsoft SharePoint site. In Cognos 10, we had a feature which helps us to provide links to the powerplay reports. But this functionality is missing in Cognos Analytics...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Right-click/context menu missing items it used to have

When selecting multiple objects, the right click menu doesn't have all the items it used to, so a lot of group actions are impossible.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Notebook-based dashboards

Dynamic dashboards are an interesting idea, but they require you to save the data to a data source and then recreate it with Cognos tools. Since the visuals were likely already done in the notebook, this is making a user go through additional, pos...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Manage Customizations is admin only function

We need to be able to grant developers who do visualizations and/or extensions the ability to manage and customize them. Currently the only individuals that can do this are administrators.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Conditional Palette /Legend Charts

In Pie /Bar chart Conditional Palette applied and it’s working as expected, but somehow the legend is not able applied the same color whatever color pie slice ,and to show legend on slice other than option "All around the pie / Left and Right pie"...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Restore menue entry "Filter For Report"

In the 3rd Level of Package View the right click menu had an entry "Filter for Report" above "Sort for report". In newer version of cognos analytics above 11.1.2 it is gone. Support said I need to add an Idea here. What? This makes the report deve...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

All tabs/This tab filters exclusion

In Cognos Analytics as of now, when filters are added to All tabs/This tab filter, they are applied for all visualizations. Quite often it will be useful to allow to exclude/avoid applying the top filters in individual visualization (the only work...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Delivery Notifications for emails sent out from Cognos Application end

When emails with report outputs are bursted from Cognos application, the email id mentioned under Cognos Configuration is considered as the default sender of those emails in case the report / job is being executed by an user which does not have an...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

KPI Distance precision

For the KPI widget, add a way to control the decimal places in the Target distance percentage. Currently only the Target value can be formatted. It is set with 2 decimal places. I want no decimal places.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration