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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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Support image saving in stories (ad-hoc drag and drop)

I would consider stories before powerpoint (Microsoft) but only if I could upload images ad-hoc to the stories I'm telling. Let there be an image folder for every user if that's what it takes on the server.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

More default options to set in individual user preferences to make the system more personalized

We are missing options to be set for individual users on their preferences. Like default options to be selected in run as / delivery (by defualt disable prompting, by default send report by email, by default attach report output)
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos 11.1.7 FP2: How to hide/disable email address text box under My preferences > Personal tab

Problem: We have decided that we will not support email from other email or external email. However, users still see "Email" under My preferences > Personal tab. We would like to request the steps for hiding/disabling the email option. Steps to...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Deselect marks in Full Interactive Viewer

When you mark elements in a report which runs with full interactive viewer, you aren't able to deselect them. Your only option is to select another section - removing the mark is not possible. This can distract the user because there is always the...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

It should be easier or possible to adjust more properties when in page prview mode

It should be easier or possible to adjust more properties when in page prview mode: It now is very hard or even difficult to select the correct property and edit it. As an example: try to add a title to a chart when in the previe mode
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Less information in error messages

The web application for Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.2 discloses internal information at several locations. The information can be used by attackers to narrow down further possible attack vectors. The examples are version information and det...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option/ Data Tree for recently used data elements

Instead of selecting the data elements from data tree for dashboards and reports, user should be able to select the data elements from the "recently used" list of data elements.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Cognos BI 10.2.2 Fixpack 7

Third party CAWe need to fix the root problem in which Cognos functionality does not account for SAN attributes.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report re-prompt issue

Issue: While running report, we are getting the prompt page for the first time and after selecting few prompt values and run the report. In second run, if we click on the report instead of showing Prompt page again, it is showing the previous run ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard: Top and Bottom filtered values for every Row Repeat and Column Repeat in visualization

Currently, overall Top and Bottom n values are displayed in a visualization irrespective of the Row and Column repeat. For example, Dimension is 'Item' and filter applied on dimension is Top 10, Measure is 'Revenue' and Repeat Row is 'Sale Year' w...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release