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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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Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - allow users to search pins based on tags

CA Dashboarding - allow users to search pins based on tags. There is a search capability, but there is nothing to search by. Need an easy way for user to find pinned widgets.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Download as Excel and cancel button appear too early

When you run a report as Excel, if interactivity is turn on, the first page of prompts displays at the top of the page a header indicating "Download as Excel" + a CANCEL button. Nothing has been executed yet. This message is displayed too early ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Watch Rules: Ability to copy a watch rule

go to "My Watch Rules" > Rules tab. Look at the tool bar, there is cut and paste, but not copy.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Under Team Content We need All reports and path and description details not Audit report

User asked what are the reports under Team content. Report Name ,Report Path and Description of the report. Example: Team Content->Office A->under 10 Reports we need to see all 10 Reports and description. In Audit Report only User run report...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enable Cognos BI to integrate with FileNet CPE 5.2.1.5 and greater

Update the code to integrate between Cognos BI and FileNet CPE 5.2.1.5 and higher.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drill through to Workspace Advanced Including Filters

As in request ID 70197, 70261 and 70004 I would like to see filters passed on drill through. I would also like the drill through to have the option of opening in a relational model in Workspace Advanced.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show a graph on Dashboard where we have to design a Graph which shows a Stacked Bars for multiple products in different colors and a Line as average.

Requirement to have a line showing the averages on a Stacked Bar graph which represents multiple products and the live representing the average. Business has been using Tableau Dashboard tool and we are migrating from Tableau to Cognos, Business i...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Seeing the contents of user's profile is not possible in Manage but only in old admin console

We try to use only Manage. In general just please add all functionalities from console to Manage. Detail: in Manage > Accounts when you see a user you can't see its content but instead just properties. This can be seen only in old Administratio...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add syntax highlighting and function suggestions to Reporting's expression editor

Dashboard and data Module calculations support syntax highlighting, and possible functions are suggested as you type their first letters. That editor would be of great use in Reporting as well.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Azure BLOB storage cloud connection to save report output

In Cognos 11.1.5 are Cloud Object Storage providers introduced. With this solution is it possible to save report output to an external Cloud Object Storage provider like IBM, Google and Amazon. Azure, one of the biggest cloud service providers, is...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration