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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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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 hide dashboard toolbar (or components of dashboard toolbar) for a dashboard or role.

When embedding dashboards into our 3rd party tool we would like the ability to disable or hide components of the dashboard toolbar to suit our needs and have a more seamless integration with our core product. In some circumstances we want to limit...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

AI Insights and Narrative Insights should be available in custom visualizations as well as the prepackaged IBM visualizations.

Currently, the icons show in the upper right when a custom visualization is used in a dashboard, and when icon is clicked the Insight panel displays but no insights are offered. It simply reads, 'there are no insights for this object'. This functi...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

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

Add ability to secure tabs in a dashboard based on different security groups

We have different groups who likes to see similar dashboards but currently we have to create separate dashboards for each group due to data security issue and we would very much like to have a functionality available where we can secure a tab in t...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Convert From Dashboard To Report

Would like the ability to take an existing "Dashboard" and convert it to a "Report".
over 6 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

Extend REST API to import/export Cognos content

We need a possibility to import/export Cognos content via REST API. There should be an interface where we can do the following tasks: Upload Cognos content (zip file) and parametrized import/export Parts of the Manage UI that should be completely ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

See my uploaded files and my amount of uploaded data

When exporting from onprem and importing to the cloud I, as an administrator, own all objects. After a few days I wanted to reload a small excel file but could not load because I had exceeded the limit of 500MB per user. I can not see which upload...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Future consideration

Remove admin vulnerability on routing sets when non admin users copy data modules / packages / files

Only cognos administrators can create and edit routing sets. This allows administrators to specify that certain cognos dispatchers should only be used for certain bits of data. For example all the Finance data modules / packages should be sent to ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted