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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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Dynamically Filter List of Report Names in Folder

In addition to the "Filter By type" and Sort By options at the top of a list of Report Names in a folder, provide a text box to Filter the list. For Folders with many reports it takes a long time to scroll down in segments and a long time for the ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Access Stored report output version via URL

In Cognos 10.2.2 it was possible to access saved Report Outputs (.xls, PDF) via URL. In the current Version 11.0.x this Szenario is not possible. Only the latest Version can be shown. Otherwise if there is more than one Output Format available, on...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to apply Style Picker formatting to multiple columns at the same time

When trying to use the Style Picker tool, there seems to be no way to apply the style to multiple cells/columns/rows at a time since the 'Style picker' icon disappears from the pop-up tool bar once you CTRL+Click to select multiple cells
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

Unable to select dimension aliases in FM with PA native data source

We created a PA Data Source now using FM to test captions on measure dimensions. We found the ability to select different alias on different dimensions is no longer available. So now there is no control as to what alias we can include in the publi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Disable Auto Scroll or Enable Freeze Pane in Workspace

Disable Auto Scroll or Enable Freeze Pane in Workspace
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under 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

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

Drill Through from PA report to relational report passed the caption or member description

When drilling through from a dimensional report (PA/TM1) to a relational report, the business key is always passed as a parameter. (Regardless of what is stored in the DrillThrough definition). The problem does not occur if "Full interactivity" is...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future 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...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration