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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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Bullet Chart Modifications

The latest version of the bullet chart in 11.1 has been modified to allow for repeating columns or rows based on a category which is great. However there are a number of problems with the chart that we would like to see changed to better meet the ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Improvements to Drill Throughs

Drill throughs have been part of Cognos for a very long time, but there have been few improvements in the past few versions. I suggest the following changes: 1. Drill to block. I would like to click on a drill and have the target open in the speci...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Google Big Query driver for Cognos On Demand Cognos Analytics

I would like to use Google Big Query in my On Demand Cognos Analytics environment. But the Google Big Query driver is not available. Please add it. There is already a ODBC and JDBC driver available: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Less Idea Focus - More Customer Focus

I want to officially complaint about the abuse of the Ideas concept within IBM and more specifically, for Cognos Analytics. While we Business Partners and our Customers are fighting every day to keep Cognos Analytics win battles versus competitors...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Add/Extend CA REST API endpoint to retrieve groups/roles/capabilities for a specified user

In the current state, there is no endpoint within the Cognos REST API that allows an administrator to query another user's groups/roles/capabilities. Having this available would be extremely useful as we will have the ability to speed up our suppo...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Calculations on single measure (ie YTY/QTQ on rev measure) in Dashboard

Today in Cognos Analytics Dashboard we are unable to perform calculations on a single measure.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export Story Functionality

Need the ability to export a Story into PDF, PowerPoint, mp4 and/or a custom downloadable format.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Permanent Hide the filters in a Dashboard for end user

End users not to be able to implement filters on the data.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Add a Value label location property to the clustered column visualization

Stacked column has a "value label location" property. Clustered column should work the same way.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Limit search to specific area of Team Content

The search ability in Cognos Analytics is much improved from Cognos 10. Now that we're utilizing it more, having the ability to narrow down results to a specific folder or set of folders. Since search only shows 50 results, this would allow us to ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release