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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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Spell Number Function

We need a way to turn numbers into words. For example, "2600" would become "Twenty-Six Hundred" We've got reporting requirements to print a check image and we need words for numbers on the dollars line.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search button is not working for custom maps in Map Visulaization

Search button in the map visualization is not working for custom maps. Currently, we have state name or provinces as Cincinnati2 vs Cincinnati and the Map is not able to recognize the province .
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos Lifecycle Manager 11.1 should have flexibility to compare csv and excel reports

We are migrating our Cognos 10.2 to 11.1.x version so to get all the reports aligned properly we used IBM Lifecycle Manager to compare reports. As we know that Lifecycle Manager 11+ version do not support formats like csv and excel so we have to m...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

WEX AC official support to MS2016

Currently, WEXAC is only officially supported up to MS2010. However, the majority of users use MS2016 as their data source. In its current state, you should officially support MS2016, as you will not be able to get support from the developer in ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide Hints based upon Role

We need the ability to Hide the Hints, either globally or by user role. Sometimes the hints refer to items that the user will not be authorized to see, thus they do not make sense for the user to see it. Example: a Hint says "this is where you wou...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search feature in "Create Data groups" like in Report studio "set limits"

If a data item has more than 32000 objects and you want to create data groups in dashboard. its limiting to 32000 items and if you want to use items that are beyond the initial pull you cannot find them.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User should be given an option to select AI prediction algorithm

With current design the tool decides the algorithm which works the best for the data. In certain scenarios, we might opt a different algorithm as per the business requirements. User should be given an option to choose the algorithm.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filtering Negative values in AI

Cognos AI prediction shows negative values in few scenarios. For example, if AI prediction is turned on a visualization for tickets created on monthly basis , it isn't really helpful if the tool predicts negative values. Tickets created cannot be ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced Finish button

Currently in a report with independent prompts ‘Finish’ refreshes the page only if the prompt values are changed on the report. If the prompt values remain the same from the previous execution the previous page is displayed. Although prompt values...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Abiliity to See Folder Name in Navigation Pane

When viewing a report/dashboard users can't see the folder names along the navigation pane. This is problematic because we utilize reports/dashboards as our home page along with multiple folders to select from. In previous versions of CA we could ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration