Skip to Main Content
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


ADD A NEW IDEA

Cognos Analytics

Showing 2800

Automatic process to apply new template to existing reports

Customer is aware of applying new template to exisitng report by copying xml content from template to report xml but user wants to automatic process or a button in report studio to copying xml content from template toreport xml.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add the ability to create new Toolbox items for Workspace Advanced

In Report Studio we have the ability to add items to the Toolbox. The client would like to see the same functionality extended to Workspace Advanced.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adding members from the same hierachy to Context Filters removes Page Layers members

I have a case against the samples where we have two report pages each with a cross-tab driven by a separate query. On page 1 I add a few members from Order Method in the Page layers section for Page 1. Then on page 2 I add a few member from Order ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Ability to Edit Data Item Label In Workspace Advanced by doubleclicking the column header

Ability to Edit Data Item Label In Workspace Advanced by double-clicking the column header. Currently the only way to do this is by right clicking on the column header and choosing ""Edit Data Item Label"". Most users will want to double-click to ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Problem with total on a grouped list

I have a problem in my report with a count. It's not the first time Ihave encountered the problem so I'm thinking maybe I'm doing somethingwrong. The data item I'm putting a count on is counted for each record of thedataset and not only for the da...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH Add a toolbox button which would clear out all prompt selections

With the addition of the prompt API javascript can be used to allow for all prompts to be cleared out. (included in the Cognos Samples showcasing the prompt API) Client would like to have a single button created without the use of javascript/HTML ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Item reference does not apply to workspace advanced

We have modified the properties of a dimension level (Date) to filter on a range (From... To...) It works fine within Query Studio but does not work within workspace advanced which asks to select string values
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

How to display current year as default value in the Year Prompt

Customer need to display current year as default value in Year Prompt. They say this behavior has to be built into the Cognos software as this is very common requirement.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

ENH : Prompt : Add the possibility to select the top N of selected level with possibility to display total and other

With the possibility to select all elements of a level in a tree prompt (COGCQ00882968) we would like to be able to do a top of these elements from one level in order to display the priority for the Business.It would then be interesting to do a cu...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH : Add the possibility to type in quickly the desired value for a prompt instead of searching for it

When a user already knows what he wants to select he doesn�t want to go through all the tree prompt to select the precise element.They would like the possibility to directly type in the value. It could then be interesting to have a field to type...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration