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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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Save HTML report to file system in HTML format and not MHT format

An HTML report is displayed optimally for the computer screen. Therefore you want to store the HTML report in the file system and make it available to your employees. This report will be saved as MHT file. In the company, Internet Explorer is no ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Hide tabs according user authorisation

It would be helpful if we could hide certain tabs for certain users. As a use case, we have a dashboard that displays the financial specifics per department, management however needs an overall view of the company wide financials. The departments ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Improvement of Table visualization in Cognos Dashboard

I would like to be able to change the column size of the columns in table in Cognos Dashboard. Just add the same resize handle as we have in a crosstab
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Comments in Saved Reports

The Enable comments in saved output versions check box, does not exist in 11.0.6.1 in 10.2.2 it is on the Report tab for Report Studio reports, the Query tab for Query Studio reports, or the Analysis tab for Analysis Studio reports, under Advanced...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Add dashboard und datamodule to folder und package functions for permission control

There is no option to specify functionpermissions for packages and folders regarding dashboards and the datamodule. The attached screenshot shows the possible options. Moreover the screenshot shows that the options are displayed using the old IU e...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make use of Planning Analytic views in Cognos Analytics

Make use of Planning Analytics (PA) views in Cognos Analytics. PA views are a powerful tool for business useres to generate and modify there view on their business. In order to better integrate IBM Cognos Analytics & Planning Analytics into on...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to convert a Framework Manager model to a Data Module

Since IBM is not longer planning updates/improvements to Framework Manager and instead focusing on Data Modules, users should have a way to convert a Framework Manager model to a Data Module. Ideally this would be functionality offered by IBM and ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Add Options for Trend/Baselines to Rave 2 Visualizations

Cognos Charts have multiple options for adding trend/baselines/target lines to Visualizations. The new Visualizations do not have this feature.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Convert From Dashboard To Report

Would like the ability to take an existing "Dashboard" and convert it to a "Report".
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Search for values when creating filter in interactive mode

When a report is created and saved in interactive mode. Users have ability to create custom filters. When creating the filter, there is no option to search for the values. Instead the users have to scroll through the value list.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release