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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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Pull up the relevant list of search result as end user types search query/keyword in filter condition search box in report

Currently, in report, end user has to press 'enter' every time after typing the search query in search box of filter condition to pull up the list of relevant search results.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Display Filter details on the same page for visualizations in PDF format

When exporting a dashboard in PDF format, filter details are displayed in next page for the visualization. User has to scroll down and navigate to the next page to view the filter details for the respective visualization.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos for Office Excel Import new option for Excel Data only

In Cognos Web UI you can export any report with the Option "Excel Data". If you choose this option the export doesn't take any formatting option or grouping option from the report. In Cognos for Office Excel Add-In you can choose the option "Ingno...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Administration activities into the new Glass UI

There are some performance issues in Cognos Administration activities in Glass U.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Waiting Animation to customizable content

Currently the waiting animation is fixed to Cognos Analytics Blue and cannot be adjusted.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Be able to create a PDF TOC (not a TOC page). A button located upper left in PDF reader

When running report in PDF, it would be nice to be able to have a PDF with a Table of Contents embedded in the PDF.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Crosstab - Ability to rename 'Summary' row

For certain crosstabs, the aggregate or 'Summary' row as it is labelled is not always the ideal wording for the aggregate, and we have had users asking if it could be renamed in instances to 'Total' for example. This would be helpful from a usabil...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dynamically labeling fields in dashboard widgets

Like in Report Studio report there is an ability to have an expression for a column label, the same feature is necessary in dashboards. For example in our case Company AR Dashboard has summary widgets with values. Labels for those summary widgets ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to disable HTTP on dispatcher when HTTPS enabled

As it is possible to deactivate HTTP on web servers when HTTPS is enabled, we would like the same option when WLP is used (dispatcher URL)
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lineage for Folder

In 11.1.7 FP1 there is no option to check lineage on the folder. This prohibits end users to see where the folder exist especially when we have nested levels and namespaces in a big package
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release