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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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Scrollable Area Height & Width Property for Crosstabs, ie Freeze Row/Column Headers

The list data container has a property for Scrollable Area Height. The freezes the column headers and allows the user to scroll throught the data with the column headers staying visible. This functionality works in interactive and classic report v...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Need Print Report Capability in Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE)

Our finance users use the "Print Report" capability in Perspectives. Using existing spreadsheets that include both TM1 formulas and excel formulas, they print these which resolve the tm1 formulas but maintain the excel fformulas and then use the b...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted
193 VOTE

Ability to set size for Search & Select Prompt

By default the Select and Search prompt is a fixed size which makes it difficult for us to layout other components on our prompt page that align with this S&S component. Also, with its fixed size, it makes it difficult for us to render the pag...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Column reordering functionality

This is a requirement to give a functionality to the users to reorder the columns in the html report output and ability to download that into excel / pdf versions. This is also one of the requirement being requested by Business on one of the project.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Accessibility in all supported web browsers and multiple screen readers

508 compliance requires application to be accessible when using a variety of major web browsers (i.e., Chrome, MS Edge) and screen readers. Cognos Analytics currently states that accessibility features are only supported with Firefox and JAWS scre...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Ability to notify time-out warning for the user before the actual timeout occur in Cognos Analytics Portal

Why is it Useful: Accessibility Time-out warning notification enhancement request: The use of timed events can present significant barriers for users with cognitive disabilities, as these users may require more time to read content or to perform f...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 3 Future consideration
145 VOTE

Conditionally Render objects on Dashboards

Include the ability to conditionally render objects in Dashboards. This would allow the user based on CSVIdentityList, the ability to conditionally present a page, based on the user's Group Membership, or based upon other attribute values on the p...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Need IBM to support userid,password for proxy server authentication

For OIDC configuration for B2C to connect to B2C Tenant we are migrating to a proxy (ZScaler) with Use ID password - Cognos does not support userid password for authenticating to a proxy server. This is a issue for use because UPS Information Secu...
19 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

A visual indicator on reports for fields with filters.

Users would benefit from having a visual indicator on the header column title that makes it easier for users to select a filter to use on that column.
19 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted
150 VOTE

Sorting items in Team Content and My Content - folders before reports

Sort items (folders, reports) in the same way like in Cognos 10 - folders first and than reports.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 11 Functionality already exists