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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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Cognos Support for JDK1.8 on Solaris Server

Support for JDK1.8 for Cognos 10.2.2 on Solaris servers.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show more lines for the expression in the data item properties pane

The expression that is showed in the properties pane is just one line height. It would be nice if there was a possibility to set text wrapping (just like in Excel) so that there are more lines of the expression visible. This prevents that you don’...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to move the properties pane to another location of the screen

The properties pane has a fixed location on the right side of the screen. On screens with a higher resolution is the working area is much bigger, which is handy. However, the result of this is that the location of the properties pane is too much t...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Use less white space for data items in the query to get a better overview

Data items / query items has too much white space/spacing between the items. This results that it is difficult to overview larger queries for report creators. Cognos version Query items displayed without scrolling 11.1.4 21 11.1.1 39 8.4.1 47 We u...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Select total data item (incl. brackets) by double click in an expression

If you want to change an expression and double click on the data item name, only the word is selected without the brackets. Most of the time you want to delete or change by another data item. In that case you have to remove the brackets separately...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve the UI/UX of the aggregation settings by showing the full list and keyboard support

Show the full list of the detail and summary aggregation options including the ability to use the keyboard by setting this option. In most situations there is more than enough space to show the full list instead of the list without a scrollbar. W...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show more characters in the detail filters window

Under the detail filters, for each filter expression only the first 50 characters are shown. There is more than enough space to make more characters visible, especially in these time where full HD is the default sreen resolution. We know the possi...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Option to collapse all queries

In bigger reports with a lot of queries (>10), the queries a shown by default unfolded. In these situations you want the same collapse options as in the data source to collapse all unfolded item once.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve "Create custom filter/filter condition" window by bringing back scrollbar and multiselect

The "create custom filter" is improved a lot, however. The choice to replace the scrollbar into a page up/down button is in our experience clumsy. When you have a list with for example customer names, using the page down button to navigate through...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

browse to 'my content' for a user in manage user account

I would be great if it is possible to acccess the My Content of a user when managing the user accounts. I know it is possible to access the My Content from Cognos Administration, but I would expect to access it also from Manage
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration