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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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Query Execution with Report Tabs

When utilizing report tabs feature all queries must validate and execute before content can be delivered. It would be better if each tab could validate and execute individually to server content quicker.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

RS 10.2.2 fix Save icon (floppy) always looks dim. color it when save needed

The current save icon in Report studio always looks dim to me. Other icons will be dim (grey) or colored depending if its applicable or not. IE when working with a query, filter icon (and icons to right) are all dimmed. When working with a reporti...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

by default email options set to "Include a link to the report" to avoid hugh attachments clogging up the system

update default option in "advanced options" when report is selected to be mailed to "Include a link to the report" instead of "Attach the report"; This is meant to avoid that endusers accidentally forget to untick the default "Attach the report"; ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Filter Search output only on Report Name and not on Report Views

Every time user click on a folder, to find a original report to be deleted in search, it displays all the views created on the report making it difficult to find the original report and taking lot of time. Proposed Solution: Capability to search o...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Conditional Formatting Slider Range

In the Dashboard module, a conditional formatting range can be set on a calculated column in a Table visualization. For example, say I create a categorical color palette for conditional formatting on a % range in a table. The range of the conditio...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Cognos Analytic report search returns report links not accessible to user in Cognos Connection.

PowerSchool is reseller of Cognos Analytics 11 to our customer base. We've received several support calls from our customers, where customer users perform a Cognos report search. The search results window display reports that the user performing t...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Bring back summary of the custom step options in a job

It’s hard to check how the step options are defined, you have to do multiple clicks to check it. The classic view shows a summary. It is especially hard when one report occurs more than one time in a job. For example with different output formats...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Logarithmic scale option in dashboard visualizations

Logarithmic scales are a frequent need that are available in certain charts in reports. This same feature should be introduced in Dashboard visualizations to support analysis of a wider range of data sets.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Cognos Wrokspace Advanced Tool Drill Through

When authoring in Cognos Workspace or Cognos Workspace Advanced a Context Filter is not passed to a target drill through report SymptomMissing expected drill through parameter CauseThis functionality is not supported in this release. It has been l...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered