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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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CA Security View for Administrators

There should be an easy way for a CA Administrator to review security for users or groups. At the moment, we can't select a user and see what their membership is. This would also be useful to review what membership a group has to other groups.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Font Options text in Bullet Charts

Working on creating a dashboard, I am using a bullet chart. I have an Actual bar and a Target. Then I have it repeated (rows). I find that I can't change the text color on the Row text, it's black. I also don't see where I can customize the color ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set Dashboard Text Items and Visualization Titles to Reflect Parameters

In report studio, a text item can be set to be equal to the value of a parameter, allowing titles to show what that page/visualization/table is being filtered by. For example, if there is a filter by state, and the current filter is on Ohio, the t...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Google Chrome samesite HTTPS cookie preservation

Google Chrome 84 version has deployed new samesite cookie restrictions. The only workaround is to have the end-user modify their chrome cookies to 'disable' samesite. Cognos is integrated within our own web-based product using an iframe. We have c...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Chart labels being too close to the markers

Chart labels being too close to the markers Note that sometimes the labels are not only too close but too far apart as well.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Ability to Include Capability Settings in Content Export

Current there is no way to export the Capabilities (secured functions/features) configurations under the Security tab in Cognos Administration. Although it is possible to export custom groups/roles using the standard content export, it is not curr...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Rocky Linux as Supported Operating System

Rocky Linux has been selected by our company as the standard operating system for all applications. As a SaaS provider standardization across the organization has a tremendous impact on our ability to service and would produce cost savings. Rocky ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Full Interactivity mode for lists and crosstabs in saved HTML outputs

By default, if you run a report in full interactivity mode, a user can interact with the output in lists, crosstabs and visual data containers. He can filter, sort, group and summarize data in these containers. But if a user schedules the same rep...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide Team Content for ordinary users

In Cognos 10.2 it was possible to hide the public folder using "consumer_root" in system.xml. In 11.2.1 I have the ability to set the "reports" folder as the custom folder but team content is still visible. setting security is not possible as the ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

IMPLEMENT CLEAR FUNCTIONALITY WHENCLICKING ON X IN INTERACTIVE MODE FOR SELECT AND SEARCH PROMPT FIELD

IMPLEMENT CLEAR FUNCTIONALITY WHENCLICKING ON X IN INTERACTIVE MODE FOR SELECT AND SEARCH PROMPT FIELD
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration