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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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Value an Waterfall Diagram

In the waterfall chart there is no way to display data over the bar.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Filter Search output only on Report Name and not on Report Views

Every time user click on a folder, to find a original report to be deleted in search, it displays all the views created on the report making it difficult to find the original report and taking lot of time. Proposed Solution: Capability to search o...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Need more visualizations like Gantt Chart for Project Mgmt , bar race chart animation in Dashboards/Reports

create more advanced vizs and keep it somewhere same like Power BI Marketplace and ppl who have signed in and using Cognos should be able to download and use advanced charts which are useful for many complex data representations.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Delivered

Conditional Formatting Slider Range

In the Dashboard module, a conditional formatting range can be set on a calculated column in a Table visualization. For example, say I create a categorical color palette for conditional formatting on a % range in a table. The range of the conditio...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

AWS Redshift support On Cloud environment

AWS Redshift is one of the top Data Warehousing options in the market, adding the capability to connect to it in a On Cloud environment would benefit lots of users, as well as making the free trial of Cognos fit enough to create a proof of concept.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

GUI Filter Option "starts with" / "ends with" / "contains"

As it was implemented in Cognos 10, the filter option "starts with", "end with" and "contains" should be avaiable in the GUI filter dialog.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Cognos Analytic report search returns report links not accessible to user in Cognos Connection.

PowerSchool is reseller of Cognos Analytics 11 to our customer base. We've received several support calls from our customers, where customer users perform a Cognos report search. The search results window display reports that the user performing t...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Bring back summary of the custom step options in a job

It’s hard to check how the step options are defined, you have to do multiple clicks to check it. The classic view shows a summary. It is especially hard when one report occurs more than one time in a job. For example with different output formats...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

View another user dashboard without the edit option

I made a dashboard for a cognos consumer. I delivered it, the consumer when open it sees the edit/preview icon. I want the consumer to just open the dashboard, filtering the data and use the various drill down without has the ability to edit or sa...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

In dashboards, global or "for this tab" filters based on different levels from same hierarchy should cascade

Users will get a much more intuitive experience if the filters in a dashboard would cascade if they are made of different levels in the same hierarchi.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered