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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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Chart scrolling when there are too many categories makes the content not readable in the dashboard

Chart Scrolling when there are too many categories not possible in the dashboard. In case of horizontal bars with the values - scrolling does not allow to view the bars and the values clearly
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update "Recent Cards" on homepage to browse by pathing rather than object ID.

A report is created for a large number of users to consume all through-out the day named Report Alpha. Developers later update Report Alpha without versioning the name of the report so that all email links and links within other user interfaces st...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

AI Assistant Languages

In Cognos Exploration currently only english language is supported, other languages including German, French and Dutch are also needed by our clients
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Couchbase Data Source

Customer is now leveraging Couchbase for data that needs to be reported on.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to schedule a Workspace refresh

We need the ability to to schedule a Workspace refresh so that data is refreshed in the background and doesn't have to be manually refreshed by the user each time and have to watch it refresh on screen which can take time.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Nav Bar size after opening reports or dashboards

When ever a user opens a report or a dashboard, the icons on the Nav Bar shrink and their labels disappear. This will make it hard for users to operate the Nav Bar especially if they are new in Cognos and trying to get familiar with it. This will ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

easy to show the SQL query and result

Currently, Cognos can show the SQL statement of the CQM model, but in the case of the DQM model, cannot show the SQL statement and just the MDX statement only. Most customers want the SQL statement. To view the SQL syntax, we must save it as a log...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Offer a 64-bit connector to IBM Optim inside Cognos Analytics

We need a data source connector in Cognos Analytics (11.x) that can connect to IBM InfoSphere Optim Archives in 64-bit mode. We are running Cognos 11 in 64-bit only mode, and there is no connector for Optim that works there, only a 32-bit ODBC. Th...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need Alphabetical order returned independent of the reporting object

In 11.1 and up you now sort first by object type, but that breaks all the navigation we had to rebuild in moving from 10 to 11. We would much prefer the return of custom sorting, but at the very least need someway to specify a sort order.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Scheduler blackout period

Users have the ability to create scheduled reports and subscriptions 24/7 regardless of maintenance/data refreshes/imports/exports etc. It would be beneficial to have the ability to create regularly scheduled "blackout" periods (IE: no reports sch...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration