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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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Missing Analysis Studio Functionality

There are missing Analysis Studio functionality that is missing in Report Authoring. If IBM is expecting normal business users to use Report Authoring as a suitable replacement for Analysis Studio, then IBM needs to make all the functionality avai...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Dashboard Scheduling via e-mail

As dashboard can be exported in PDF and can also be sent via email, it would be great for our users if Dashboard could also be schedules and users can receive it.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Use a value as a parameter to which you can assign a color thru the whole dashboard or BI environment

When you move within reports and/or to a Dashboard. It would be great if the same color would ALWAYS stays with the same item (Product, KPI, etc....) Even as simple KPI Answers as Yes , Very Likely , Sometimes or No . We can assign a number at the...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Set User Preference for Automatic Group and Summary Behavior for Lists

Allow users to set their preference for 'Automatic group and summary behavior for lists' as a user preference rather than the current requirement to set as an option for each report.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data module: Sorting of query subjects and query items

Add sorting possiblity for query subjects and query items in data module editor like it is possible in Framework Manager.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data modules: context explorer

Data modules should have a context explorer like in Framework Manager. This is very useful for complex/bigger models with many relationships.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Change/Specify Name of Field in Legend

Lack of customization in RAVE visualizations is a major impediment to adoption. Need the ability to customize the field names within the legend in all of the different visualization templates.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

rate limiting to avoid excess password attempt

This vulnerability was discovered by attempting numerous incorrect passwords for a backup, followed by the correct one, and observing that authentication succeeded without any delay or lockout.There are password-protected backups available to user...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

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.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration