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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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Ability to turn off or lock the new feature of automatically creating table structures when dropping objects

The new feature in Cognos 11.1.1 of automatically creating table structures when dropping an object. This makes nesting data items into the end column/row of a crosstab or table very difficult. It also makes reporting writing unnecessarily difficu...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Cognos Analytics: Make the help helpful

Cognos Analytics 11.0.x The help in Cognos Analytics is not helpful. There is a single help icon that always does the same thing. The page it leads to (http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.cbi.doc/welcome....
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Expand and Collapse functionality asscociated with Grouping

Provide Expand / Collapse capability as base functionality for report development with relational data.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Bring back "Run As" option to shortcut

In C10, report's shortcut used to have the "run as" option as reports do. In C11.1 this option was taken away. Our users access reports via a shortcut and now they are not able to take advantage of the "Run As" option.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Export to excel of 11.1 line chart

I would like to be able to export 11.1 line chart to excel. It is already possible to export 11.1 bar (column) chart.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

IBM Cognos Analytics 11 - Dashboards - Summary Visualization Conditional Palette

Hello, This is Rui Gonçalves from BI4ALL. I'm currently working in a project using IBM COGNOS ANALYTICS DASHBOARDS and evaluating the possibility to provide to the client the type of analysis and visualizations required. I noticed that IBM Cognos ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Group Repeating Cells - export to Excel as Page Property

We create reports that detail the user-selected prompt choices on a cover page and the actual report on a report page. The cover page consists of a table with two columns: left column are all the prompt choices available, right column consists of ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Prevent on-demand menu from covering properties pane

Request for on-demand menu not to extend over the properties pane. Currently on-demand menu covers the properties pane when it appears close to right hand side of canvas. Aaarrrghh!!There is no option to control where the menu appears, only an opt...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

AWS Redshift support On Cloud environment

AWS Redshift is one of the top Data Warehousing options in the market, adding the capability to connect to it in a On Cloud environment would benefit lots of users, as well as making the free trial of Cognos fit enough to create a proof of concept.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Make charts show data drop zones by default

Charts hide the drop zones by default, but dragging an item over the chart will automatically show the drop zones.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered