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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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Tooltips on Report Names

I would like to be able to have a tooltip pop up on mouse over when the user hovers over a report name in Team Content that lists a description of the report and also an image of the completed report. This will greatly aid our customers that can't...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Auto Resize Result List

the properties.js file is not supported in the new Analytics interactive viewer so SYSTEMPROPERTY_CSEARCH_AUTO_RESIZE_RESULT_LIST will not work when set to true. This is something that worked in 10.2.2 and no longer works.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Crosstab and List Rave 2 visualisations

Crosstab and List Rave 2 visualisations to use in active reports. This will allow for the crosstab and list to be filtered by a category not being displayed in the values. Same behaviour as charts.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Row based security using session ID in Data Modules

We have a need for row based security in the data modules. Ideally we would be able to filter content based on the session id of the user against a security table that is part of the model. Our business analyst users can do this in other tools and...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Zero suppression in a report using a data module

When a report is using a data module as source, zero suppression is only applicable via the query. If the report is running against a package instead, there is an additional icon on the toolbar to directly filter zero values in the report view. Th...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Allow Transformer To Run In 64-Bit Mode

Allow transformer to run using 64-bit dispatchers. Note that this not a requirement for transformer to take advantage of any extended functionality 64-bit might entail. We simply want transformer to run within a Cognos Analytics environment having...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make it quicker for a user to email report output

In Cognos 10 it was pretty simple for a user to email report output to themselves. They would click the Run with Options icon and Email the Report was one of the options presented on the resulting window. In Cognos Analytics, the same option is av...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Google Big Query driver for Cognos On Demand Cognos Analytics

I would like to use Google Big Query in my On Demand Cognos Analytics environment. But the Google Big Query driver is not available. Please add it. There is already a ODBC and JDBC driver available: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Filters for Mobile Dashboard

At the moment, it is very easy to create filters on desktop for different metrics on a page level dashboard. Unfortunately, the page-wide applied filters doesn't affect the metric when viewed on the mobile app - IBM Cognos Analytics Mobile. It wou...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Save Report output to Box and OneDrive

We are looking for a solution where we can allow users to schedule their report's output to Box or OneDrive accounts. This will bring a lot of value for our users as often our users schedule reports to be delivered via email and some of them are r...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration