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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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Business Partners are looking for Cognos Adhoc reports open in Page Review mode in Reporting tool by default

As a part of Query Studio sunset in Cognos 11.2.2 Edge browser, Business partners are migrated their QS reports to RS reports .Business Partners are looking for Migrated Cognos Adhoc reports (RS) should open in Page Review mode in Reporting tool b...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Display Active Filters on Dashboard

Would be useful to switch on/off a view of any active filters on a Dashboard. Or incorporate active filters into title of visualisation.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add functionality to manage Notifications for individual users

Users have set Alerts via "Alert me about new versions" on Reports. The only Admin Tool available in the UI is "Do not alert any about new versions" - this will remove all active Alerts.An option is required to remove individual Users from the Ale...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Lifecycle Manager Server Install

Would prefer to run Lifecycle manager from a server rather than a desktop, but can't do that because when you log off a server, then it disables the application. Would like to be able to leave the machine and still leave the Lifecycle Manager stil...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add tool top to Cognos Report Column Header

User Runs Report. Hovers ouse over Column Headings . Able to see more description or screen tip
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Adding User to Groups: One place to add a User to Multiple Role/Group at a time

Strange enough that you can add multiple Users to a Role or Group but you can't do the opposite It gets a bit or quite frustrating when you need to repeat the same steps to find Roles/Groups to add a User to
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Export single objects: reports, shortcuts, jobs, etc

Hi, In Cognos Analytics it would be really useful to have the possibility to export or import single objects and not only entire folders. Please try to integrate this functionality in the future versions of the product. KR, Marius
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pass through SQL

Hi, We are looking for an Audit Report or an SDK Functionality to identify the number of pass through sql reports used in a Environment Thanks.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Format / customize "Insert Filter Text" in reporting

The "Insert Filter Text" function does not allow any formatting. For example, the year (integer) will be formatted as "2.019". It would be interesting to be able to change some display options.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Crosstab - Ability to rename 'Summary' row

For certain crosstabs, the aggregate or 'Summary' row as it is labelled is not always the ideal wording for the aggregate, and we have had users asking if it could be renamed in instances to 'Total' for example. This would be helpful from a usabil...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release