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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

More options to modify axes in a dashboard

The new dashboarding function in Cognos Analytics has limited customization for charts. In particular, it would be useful to be able to: 1. Hide the axis title for each axis individually2. Change the color of the axes, axis titles, and labels
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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

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.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Websites connections

I like to have a connector who can read csv's. json's, etc. form a web page.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 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
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Gantt chart visualization tool tip should show start and finish date of BAR

When using standard visualization of Gantt chart, it is not displaying proper dates in tool tip.Currently it shows no. of days since 01/01/1970.Suppose the start date is : 21/07/2015Tooltip will show : Number of days = 21/07/2015 - 01/01/1970 Expe...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Auditing license mapping for non connected users

As soon as the cognos analytics licenses are required for all autorized users even though he has never used the product, why the "Manage Licenses" does not allow viewing the license mapping for all users ? (active or potential ).
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Delivered