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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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Option to Disable Diagonal Flashing Animation When Data is Loading or Refreshing in Dashboard Tool

When loading or refreshing dashboard data, there is a new diagonal flashing animation on the widgets - this can occur when the dashboard is first launched or when clicking on another widget to filter down/refresh the data. A number of users have r...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

block the possibility of "double-logging"

Add the possibility to either block the possibility of "double-logging" - at the risk of hindering the work of administrators who often log on from different terminals/browsers simultaneously, unless the blockage can be made selective - or/and to ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Keep schedule when copying reports

Customer moves a report, report view or event and the schedule stays with the object. If one copies a said item the schedule gets removed which is understandable or it would run twice. However, if you copy and want to keep the copy you have to cre...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Freeze Panes for Excel Output

My client is trying to predict some of the complaints that the end users will have with the burst reports we are building. One of them is having to set the freeze panes field themselves. If there is a way to build in the freeze panes function in C...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Remove list of Recent Projects listed in FM welcome screen

In a multi-tenancy (shared) environment for Framework Manager, allow the need to remove the list of Recent Projects (files) listed on the Welcome Screen. Currently the default setting is 4: <Preference Name="RecentProjectListSize">4</Pref...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Not under consideration

pdf drill through for Edge Browser

users used to be able to in IE have reports in pdf format and click on embedded report links and have them open successfully. support has verified this is delivered again for v11.2 with Chrome or Firefox but not Edge browser. This will remain brok...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

drill down on map visualization

I want to analyze a single report by looking at the map visualization at multiple levels.I currently don't have a workaround and have no choice but to put multiple maps in the report. This method is very verbose and does not perform well.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Experiencing slowness in environment both in navigating and in running batch and interactive reports

Client is seeing slow performance in the environment. The environment was running fine previously. Reports are getting queued up and stuck in a pending/executing state.When running a single report client sees the prompt page take a long time to ex...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to send report output via email

Once a report has been run in a portlet (in this case a SharePoint Page Viewer web part) there is no option to be able to send the report output via email. The client would like this functionality to be added to the product (either via a button th...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Unable to create a percentage of the single rows instead of a simple total in a active report

It is impossible to create a percentage of the single row instead of a simple total in a active report. In a normal report it is possible to insert a query calculation into a cell but this is not possible to do in an active report. Enable the func...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration