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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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Cognos ability to read from REST API services

One challenge we are facing today is the ability to read data from non-traditional databases such as Marklogic, Nginx, NoSql databases which talk through Rest API for most of their functionality. They not only enable real time reporting requiremen...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Role customization to control features at more granular level

We have extensively used "User Interface Profiles" in Cognos 10.2.2. After upgrading to Cognos Analytics 11 R5, this feature is deprecated and there is no control over providing different reporting capabilities to different user groups based on th...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

ReportStudio - same clipboard functionality in all browsers

In ReportStudio it is not possible to copy and paste parts of the report between different sessions. In Microsoft Internet it is possible to copy queries and so on and paste them to another ReportStudio session/ development window.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Delivered

support for deployment packages via sftp process.

When customers transition to CAoC the only way to get reports deployed is via PMR. This is time consuming and PMR are not always followed up immediately, especially when timezone differences exist between customer and cloud operations. when custom...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered
363 VOTE

Ability to expand and collapse a grouped list or crosstab

I would love to see the ability to expand and collapse groups in lists specifically, but also crosstabs. Only the summary information for those groups would be shown, much like what is shown by default when summaries are added to the list group fo...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered
512 VOTE

Drop Downs in Dashboard in Cognos Analytics 11

In Cognos Analytics 11 at the moment we can drag an item to the dashboard and it creates a hierarchy that can be selected from to change data. If we can change this to a drop down, similar to what can be done on report studio prompt pages, then it...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 8 Delivered

Auto Cascading Multi and Single Value Prompts without Page Refresh

Auto Cascading Multi and Single Value Prompts without Page RefreshVery useful if the report is based on a large data setI've used other reporting tools which allows this featureAnd PLEASE do not say you have this in Active Report, that wasn't my RFE
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Make charts show data drop zones by default

Charts hide the drop zones by default, but dragging an item over the chart will automatically show the drop zones.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Add Bullet Chart to pre-packaged RAVE2 visualizations

When positioning Cognos Analytics as a dashboarding solution to prospective and existing clients, I often reference the works of Stephen Few and others to make the case that Cognos is a 'best in class' solution that delivers visualizations in line...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

when uploading a file, the ability to import multiple tabs of an excel file

When uploading a file, the ability to import multiple tabs of a single excel file.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered