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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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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

Ability to control interactive mode on list/charts/crosstabs level

Although the new interactive mode is a great enhancement it is only possible to switch it on/off on the report level. When it is activated all data containers are interactive (charts/lists/crosstabs) giving the user all capabilities available. We ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Microsoft Edge Chromium for Cognos Analytics

Our Company has rolled out Edge Chromium has the default browser but this browser is not yet supported. Although it worked fine for v11.1.4, it gives issues in v11.1.7 when creating a new report or editing an existing report (cannot reasd property...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Planned for future release

Prebuilt row count function on Cognos Report

We've noticed a challenge with our reports: users often need to gauge the scope of the data they're dealing with, which currently isn't straightforward in Cognos Reporting. While our reports can generate outputs ranging from 10,000 to 3 million re...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Change size of the label KPI

We want to have the ability to change the label size in a KPI.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics - Control Over Interactivity

Currently options exist at report level to either enable or disable full interactivity. We would like more control over this functionality, perhaps at the object level.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

fix the Cognos license counts for users who don't login

After Capabilities updated, admin licenses are incorrectly showing counts for users who don't login. Analytics Administrator license count should match the number of System Administrators.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Make field search in reports the same as dashboards.

Currently the field search in reporting doesn't show a tree structure for where the field is coming from. If you have two similarly named fields you won't know which one to choose. In dashboards it shows the tree structure of where the field origi...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Provide basic Set of Utilities required to work with Cognos Analytics

IBM provided a host of Tools like Dispatcher Diagnostic tool, CM Tools, JGetInfo, LogViewerV2 among others directly as a download for customers or in the product. Currently some of these Tools are no longer available. For others you have to contac...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support to use Cognos Analytics via Android browsers (touch interface)

Provide the ability to connect to Cognos Analytics via a browser and use touch to navigate my content on Android devices.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration