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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 Data & AI Roadmaps (http://ibm.biz/Data-and-AI-Roadmaps) - Use this site to view roadmaps for Data & AI products.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://hybridcloudunit-internal.ideas.aha.io/


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Simplify fixes and enhancements to be installed and onfigured as a patch or fix pack, not as the entire version

In the last two upgrades it has been very time consuming and frustrating to apply the product and then test and then if issue install and configure the next in all instances being a distributed env. We have a total of 45 most of them in the webser...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Options missing for Query, Report Page and Prompt Page

Run Page , and Manage Report/Prompt Pages and Manage Classes for Report Pages and Prompt Pages are not available if you right click on the Individual Report Pages and Prompt Pages.And If you right click on the individual Query, we are unable to se...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Exploration support for calculations in Starting Points

Currently, Explore cannot support calculations in Starting Points. This would be very useful as a lot of the benefit from Data Modules comes from the ability to easily merge data sources together and create calculations from the resulting table. I...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Visualization x-axis label from horizontal to vertical

How can we flip the visualization x-axis label from horizontal to vertical in Reports? Note: we are aware that the feature is available in dashboards - Item axis label orientation but we cant find it in Reports.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Layout woes related to resize and legends

See my video that shows this issue at https://youtu.be/oaDDp73vMsc When creating Dashboards ...Chart legends tend to prefer adding white space over showing the full legend text. I have to resize the chart to be too large just to show the full lege...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

smaller / sizable font in the portal

A smaller font in the portal would make it easier to get an overview while navigating
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

API functionality for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

I've been told by our IBM rep that for Cognos on Cloud there is no direct connection through a Java API. It would have to be uploaded as an xls. file into Cognos on Cloud. This request is to make that API functionality available on Cognos Analytic...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

ENH: Add ability to save the state of frozen column/row headers between report runs

When running an HTML report in Cognos viewer there is an option in the context menu to freeze the row or column headings. These options need to be selected every time a report is run. For reports where the user always has to scroll a lot and consi...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

API should be updated above API 20 in Cognos 10.2.1 to get Salesforce Login Histroy

We established a connection between IBM Cognos 10.2.1 and salesforce (SFDC Sandbox.) -We see all objects when we import the tables in Framework manager but not the LoginHistory object (Table) via the IBM Cognos/SFDC connection. But i am able to vi...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Set Encrypt=false when using MS SQL Database

Since MS JDBC Driver 10.2, the default behaviour for the JDBC driver is to set encrypt=true; this causes issues with Cognos Configuration as the error messages when using the JDBC driver suggests that when the setting is SSL Encryption Enabled is ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Delivered