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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,


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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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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

QR code in share content tab

As url and iframe integration is available on share content tab, it should be useful to generate a QR code to allow users to take it to theis mobile devices instantly.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

(on cloud) expand Excel output to 1,048,576 rows from 11.6

Your Excel features on the 'on premises' are not available for the multi-tenant environment. Expanding the Excel output to 1,048,576 will take advantage of Excel row expansion that has been available for decades.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create mailing label template

We have users that continue to try to create mailing labels. They continue to struggle with understanding repeater tables, formatting and alignment. Then after frustration, they drop the data to Excel and print.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Omitting Run History on objects

In Cognos, each object (e.g. reports, report views) contains a property for number of Run History occurrences. The default value is 5. The value can vary from 0 (unlimited number of occurrences) to 999 (maximum value). It is however not yet possib...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to turn off 'Reset Prompts and Rerun' option on individual reports

Currently this option is available to users on drillthrough reports, so when chosen this option presents (to an end user) a series of options they don't understand, rather than the original prompt screen from the main report. Our only workaround c...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

computer security

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over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration