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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).


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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:


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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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Import query subjects with prompts

We want to request query subjects from Cognos Analytics in Jupyter notebooks and use them as a data basis for analyses and ML methods. Currently, all query subjects that expect user input (prompts/filter) are excluded. This currently leads to cons...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Date Prompt in Dashboards (Slider or Date Box)

Currently we don't have this capability on Dashboards.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Launch Report Studio through URL along with embedded package to use

Unable to launch Report Studio with an embedded package, which we were able to do in Cognos 10.2.2. Clients are given the ability to create their own reports by defining profile and package (restrctive) in the URL to launch Report Studio. We do no...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBCS standard visualizations

IBCS is a well known reporting standard, especially among people working in Controlling. They are used to standardized reports and require the same type of visualizations to be available in Cognos Analytics. Moreover, such visualizations are avail...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Chose color for different columns

We want functionality where we can choose color depending on some criteria’s. Example We have a column which contains information if the household is a partner, single men, or single women. This data will be shown in a pie chart were the size depe...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Freeze Sections in Dashboard in Cognos Analytics 11

We created large dashboards in CA11 as part of our organization requirement, giving the users the ability to interact with multiple dimensions inside the same dashboard. Because of multiple visualizations inside the dashboard, users have to scroll...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Impact Diagram in PAW

Impact diagram was very valuable for us from the metric studio days for us to show how a bad metric influences the other ones. Now that the performance modeler is going to be deprecated, the lack of availability of the impact diagram affects the v...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Customer wants to set a Schedule report frequency multiple times a day. there is no option to schedule hourly refresh in the on demand offering.. Currently we only have options for Daily, Weekly and Monthly as per documentation

Response from Support - From: JEREMY BEATHAM < jbeatham@au1.ibm.com >As we’ve covered previously, the capability of the product is more limited in the offereing chosen to develop this solution. As previously highlighted for other functionali...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Under review

Rename folder names on home page

Hello There, We are looking for a way to rename the 'Team content' and 'My content' folders on Cognos Analytics home page. This feature is available on earlier Cognos 10.X versions.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics For MS Office

We downloaded the latest version of Cognos Analytics for MS office and connected it to Cognos Analytics 11.1.5 environment. We tried to import the report to PowerPoint. We found we couldn't import 11.1 style visualization to PowerPoint. It shows b...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration