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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,


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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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Visualization x-axis label from horizontal to vertical

How can we flip the visualization x-axis label from horizontal to vertical in Reports? Note: we are aware that the feature is available in dashboards - Item axis label orientation but we cant find it in Reports.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 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...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Websites connections

I like to have a connector who can read csv's. json's, etc. form a web page.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Auditing license mapping for non connected users

As soon as the cognos analytics licenses are required for all autorized users even though he has never used the product, why the "Manage Licenses" does not allow viewing the license mapping for all users ? (active or potential ).
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 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 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Copy and paste a value from a HTML list

As it was possible in C10, it would be very usefull to be able to copy a value from a page/query when executing in HTML and in interactive mode in order to paste out of Cognos Analytics. This is usefull when we have to check in external sofwares a...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Delivered

Cognos should be embeddable in applications using Standards Mode

Should not mandate Quirks Mode and Compatibility View. For example some of the IE9 Standards Mode issues we currently are facing:->While running the report in XML format, the report output is showing as text format in viewer page ->Report St...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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 5 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...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Workspace Advanced - Pass Context Filters as Drill parameters

Context filters from Workspace Advanced are not being passed as drill-through parameters. This is known behaviour, tech note from Dec 2014:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21511919 Desired behaviour: Context filters are passed as d...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered