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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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Add property to suppres subtotals when there is only X members (Usually 1)

When there are subtotals on a report (Report Studio, Analysis Studio (I know, end of life), there are times when there is only one row that has the sub total, and other groupings have more than one row. I think it would be clearer if I could suppr...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace: Property to control when show values enabled (normal or maximize)

enable show values, show values and/or percentages in workspace do so regardless of the report widget is normal size or maximized size.There are times that values will display properly maximized, but wont when normal.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

workspace: Action Button add property for "Prompt Again"

when consuming prompted reports in Workspace, there is not a convenient way to prompt again. From Tools > Action Button, add choice to prompt Again. when a prompted report is on workspace, this would be easier then looking for the black down ar...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

backup and restore of datasources

there should be a way of exporting only the datasources to allow for backup and restore of individual datasources instead of doing all DS;s at once
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

HTML Tables in PDF Cognos Reports

Allow HTML Items to render in PDF Mode in Cognos
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace Advanced - Pass TM1 attributes as Drill parameters

TM1 dimension attributes are not able to be passed as drill-through parameters from Workspace Advanced. Enhancement: A new option "TM1 attribute" be included under "Source metadata item properties" when setting up a drill definition (Current optio...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace Advanced : No automatical totals and subtotals

Unlike Analyis Studio which creates automatic TOTALS and SUBTOTALS when items are added to crosstab, Workspace Advanced does not do it.Most importantly, Analysis Studio creates automatic subtotals of 'included items' when sets are filtered. This i...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Avoid getting Context Filter Item rows created in IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced or any other Cognos Self Serve tools

In Self Serve Dashboarding/Reporting using IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced or IBM Cognos Insight, when we drag any elements from the model to the chart/graph/visualisation, for each of the dragged item, tool creates rows for all individual items dra...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improved silent install/uninstallation options

See: Service request number 88956 999 649 for more details: All installs / uninstalls in our organization are done through SCCM silently. Employees do not have the ability to install or uninstall software packages themselves on their Windows 7/8 c...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

We need to use Global Exchange address book to select recipients for email lists

We need to use Global Exchange address book to select recipients for email lists
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration