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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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Shortcut access from studios

Today its is posible to create a dashboard/report/datamodul when clicking on the breadcrumps to the right of the dataset/datamodule shortcut. But if you use new dashboard/report/datamodule you cannot see the shortcut !?
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Define the range for the Y axis on Dashboards

Include the function to fix the Y axis range on all 11.x Dashboard Visualisations.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Cognos analytics prompts - add a default value based on an expression

It would be very helpful if Cognos analytics prompts supports adding a default value based on a query in addition to being able to choose static choices.. This would be very helpful for creating reports without needing to creating custom code. Cur...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

View Tabular data in Excel format

See tabular data in different format (Excel) other than HTML in 11.1.7 ? We have a work around provides the data in Excel, however, it takes twice as long. The query runs once for HTML, then has to run again for Excel. If we have the option to run...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Delivered

Enable grouping on categories (when nested along X-Axis) within a dashboard visualization

Enable grouping on bars (when nested along X-Axis) within a dashboard visualization. When working with visualizations within Dashboard in CA 11.0.7, one requires the ability to expose grouping capabilities along X-Axis categories (or in CA 11.0.7,...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Support Microsoft Identity Platform 2.0 API with Azure AD OpenID Connect (TS003289567)

Azure AD OpenID Connect API v1 (Azure AD for developers 1.0) doesn't support returning the groups claim in the ROPC (Resource Owner Password Credentials) logon method that Cognos uses to Authorize Stored Credentials for scheduled tasks and jobs. S...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Saving a package based data module takes minutes

When trying to create a data module based on a big FM package it takes 2-3 minutes for the data module to save. This should be improved so that saving the data module is faster. Support assumed that it could be the smarts service that takes a long...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Delivered

Allow Extensions to be Uploaded to Cloud Environments

Provide the ability to Customize the UI in Cloud Environments. Currently this is not possible because Extensions are not supported in Cloud Environments.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Output tabular data of a query into Excel format

In Cognos BI or versions prior to Cognos Analytics 11.x.x there was the option to run the output of a query during design time into an Excel format which made it easy for developers to see, massage and analyze the data as they go. Even though it i...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Missing option to Send report by email from report output

We are missing the option to send the report by email from report output after the report execution (when we have the final html or pdf generated on the screen) like it used to be the case in C10. Like this users could do the right prompting and w...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered