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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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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

Garmin Vivoactive 3 is a high-technology and world-class watch that tracks all your daily-based activities. It is a full-featured watch with fitness trackers that evaluates your fitness with VO2 max and fitness age estimates.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

every curve lines can setting Display values or not in Dashboard

pie line chart ca setting every line values display or not
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Certify Qlik Connect AIS JDBC Driver to Data Source Connections

Changing from CQM to DQM, DQM requires JDBC connections. Qlik Connect has a JDBC driver that can be used in the Data Source connections. Cognos has not certified this driver. We are implementing security features to our data that requires us to sw...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide Visualizations based on Use Roles

11.1 version offers 4 types of visualization engines. For adhoc users its quite confusing to find which chart type to use. At least RAVE 1 & 2 needs to be hidden from users as we can find the functionality with new 11.1 charts.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Increase Width of Scrollbar on a navigation bar for Google Chrome

The scrollbar in the navigation window is too thin in Chrome. As a user, who has many objects in one folder, it is difficult to scroll down. The scrollbar width in Internet Explorer 11 is wider than in Chrome.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Not under consideration

Capability to read data sets and load in database tables - not available per IBM in Cognos 11.1.R5-R7

is it possible to read data sets and load in database tables, whether content store is on database or external storage? Purpose is to reuse Cognos Dataset elsewhere for analysis, so want to load data in table or for any other analytical tool.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restful Web Service

We are primary a Salesforce shop and update Salesforce from data compiled by our database. We'd like use a Cognos "servce" to return report data (in xml or json) made by a Salesforce call out to Cognos.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists