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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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Vertical fit to one page

Hello, In report studio, there is an option to avoid horizontal pagination.We would like to have the same option for vertical pagination.This would force the report to fit to one page (reducing automatically table's width).Thank you in advance
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Row version of math functions

Math functions in Cognos works on individual field in a column fashion. I need to use math function on a row instead. The particular functions that I'm using are aggregate and maximum but all math functions could be used in this manner. Especially...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Job or schedule xml editing or visibility.

My colleagues and I suggest making available in Cognos Administration the ability to edit or at least view Job or Schedule XML.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

display ordinance-designated city in Japan with map visualization

In the "map" visualization,We are currently unable to display the "designated cities" (Seirei sitei toshi) in Japan."Ordinance-designated cities" are the 20 major cities in Japan, and include major cities such as Yokohama and Sapporo.Many Japanese...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to show blank or custom string instead of #!Security in studios when accessing a secured Transformer cube

If a Transformer cube has custom views, and if some users are part of several custom views, there may be situations where users have rights to see some categories from some dimensions, but not the data at the intersection. In such a case, Analysis...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a function to determine if we are in the last row of a list or a crosstab

Ability to determine with a report function if we are in the last row of a list or a crosstab in order to apply specific layout (color coding).
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve the representation in Cognos portal

(1) For the burst versions, total count of burst versions is not displayed which makes it very difficult to understand appropriate how many report versions have been busted. As we have 9 reports that are busted on daily basis and each report burst...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to use Horizontal Page Count in Conditionnal Style

We would like to have the possibility to use the Horizontal Page Count function in conditionnal style.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to expand a tree prompt element even if some elements are breaking hierarchy order

When a user has acces to the total of the hierarchy then doesn't have acces to the next level but has acces to the following level, elements from this level are not accessible from the tree prompt with rootMembers. As the total hierarchy display n...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Transformer Data Source Signon loops when it should provide a detailed error message

Viewing the data in Transformer or attempting to build a PowerCube causes the Data Source Signon page to be displayed. User enters credentials and clicks OK. The signon dialog is displayed again and this loop continues. Requested Change.An error s...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration