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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,


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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


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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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Toggle between Measures in Dashboard Visualization

If I am building a dashboard and I want to use the same visualization (PIe Chart for example), I would like to create the visualization only once and display it on the dashboard only once and then have some means to toggle between various measures...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make TM1 subsets in Cognos Analytics private , according to the user's security profil

The capability to use TM1 subsets in Cognos Analytics is really a highlight in R9. However those subsets a public meaning available to all users. In TM1 there are also private Subsets which are only available to specific users. We need the same ca...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enhancements to the Alert Banner

The Alerts Banner, started in version 11.1.4, is a very useful tool to communicate with users. Very handy for announcements like downtime, availability of reports or updates to the environment. Please add the following features: 1- Ability to add ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Disable gridlines in Cognos for Excel exports of reports/dashboards

Users desire that Excel exports of reports/dashboards to look as much as possible as in Cognos. For this, the gridlines in Excel should be disabled. Currently, there is no option in Cognos for disabling the gridlines, which means that each individ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Allow relative path for dashboard images

Adding an image to a dashboard, the URL property does not allow relative path which makes deploying to different environments challenging.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Low Volume Suppression

IBM WH is using Cognos Reports and Dashboards to report on healthcare data. Our customers have concerns about users being able to create reports and dashboards that can return field/cell values that could potentially identify an individual even if...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide functionality to pass prompt values in parameterized URLs to Dashboards.

An external application uses Cognos Report URLs with Prompt parameters to open Cognos reports filtered with prompts values and want to have the same functionality available for Cognos Analytics Dashboards.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement to dashboard standalone-filters

Background: We implemented rolebased security via standalone-filter on a table in a dashboard and noticed a not so consistent behaviour. Note! This standalone-filter is active/enabled in the dashboard when user opens the dashboard. It is nothing a...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Document Report within Report Studio

The ability to add text documentation to a report at different object levels and the ability to display it to the developer.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Search on Visualizations in Cognos Analytics

The use case involves the ability to search the available visualizations in Cognos Analytics. Search is already provided for the data, pin, and custom widget panels. This can enable faster authoring. This should apply to custom and native visualiz...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration