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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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Filters on Canvas

When creating dashboards in ESA you can add filters to your canvas but have no ability to format the filters to make them easily read or tie in with the format pallet or typeface used on the rest of the dashboard. This means if you resize the filt...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Parameter Cache: Additional successful entries are getting created for the reports during the scheduled Job execution/individual report runs

Currently, we are able to view the entries for the parameter cache from appearing in the history in the below scenarios: We are able to see entries for parameter cache for interactive report runs in Administration, though interactive run history ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Populate Data Tray with FM Package Data

Expand Data Tray Scope to include data from FM packages. Right now it is difficult to debug data/model issues in Dashboarding.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Commentary functionality on CA reports

functionality to add comments to the reports in Cognos Analytics 11 such as TM1 have per cell.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extend REST API to configure and customize environments

We need a possibility to configure and customize our Cognos environments via REST API. It is not possible for us to do these tasks via Manage-UI, because we have dozens of environments and they should all be configured and customized identically. ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Add Busting option to Report Views in CA Portal

The Bursting Option for Report Views is only available in Cognos Administration>Schedules tab. Please add this option to Cognos Analytics Portal.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Email text template

Often reports are sent from Cognos via email to the receipients. As the reports owner, we take care in adding a relevant text to the email, such as our company's official logo, address, etc. Currently, whenever a change to the standard email text...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request for Cognos Analytics Docker Image

Hi, We are planning to go for docker images for all of our internal applications. So we need CA version to be made available that can be utilized on Docker.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

HTML items in Cognos for Office

We want to use HTML-items (Javascript, Integeo, Maps etc) in Cognos for Office. When we import items in Powerpoint our map does not appear.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Name tabs in Cognos dashboards dynamically

I want to name tabs in Cognos dashboards dynamically. The use case is that I have a tab which shows current year data, one for 5 year data and one for 10 year data. I can name them in line with that but it would be better if they were named 2020, ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration