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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,


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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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Allow Scheduling on landing page for Recents

On the landing page there is the option to select properties and navigate to the scheduling tab but when you try to enter the scheduling information the focus goes off the page and there is no way to get to the scheduling options.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Support for new Japanese imperial era name

Japanese imperial era name will be changed within near future.https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/19/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-may-announce-new-imperial-era-name-summer-2018/#.WaYIHGdSCIs Cognos BI 10.2.x products supports Japanese i...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Deginating My Content location during import

During the upload process files are just dumped into "My Content", then you have to use the Copy or Move function.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Easy Grouping / Binning of values

Easy Grouping / Binning of values: this is already possible in the data module but request is to make this also possible in the user interface of the dashboard module
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Cognos Wrokspace Advanced Tool Drill Through

When authoring in Cognos Workspace or Cognos Workspace Advanced a Context Filter is not passed to a target drill through report SymptomMissing expected drill through parameter CauseThis functionality is not supported in this release. It has been l...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Cognos should be embeddable in applications using Standards Mode

Should not mandate Quirks Mode and Compatibility View. For example some of the IE9 Standards Mode issues we currently are facing:->While running the report in XML format, the report output is showing as text format in viewer page ->Report St...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Workspace Advanced - Pass Context Filters as Drill parameters

Context filters from Workspace Advanced are not being passed as drill-through parameters. This is known behaviour, tech note from Dec 2014:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21511919 Desired behaviour: Context filters are passed as d...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Expand table visualizations on Dashboards when exporting to PDF

When exporting a Dashboard to a PDF users expect the option to have a table visualization to expand so all of the values are visible without a scrollbar, even if it expands on to additional pages.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Delivered

Enhanced Widget Connections in Dashboards

The request behind this idea is to have additional control over how dashboard visualizations respond to each other via widget connections. It is understood that additional connections can be created to group respective visualizations together but ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Dashboard Crosstab: Option to show measures as rows

Currently, when you have multiple measures on a dashboard crosstab it displays them as columns. Swapping rows/columns doesn't work for measures. Need an option to display multiple measures as Rows, in addition to the default of columns. We're tryi...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered