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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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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

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

Add attachment option sending via email clicking on the share button

TS008910119 Add attachment option not available when sending via email clicking on the share button I review the details with PM. I receive the following response. This share by email function was originally not present in 11. x and was re-introdu...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Future consideration

dashboard filter greater than or less than

on dashboard filter is it possible to add a condition > greater than, < less than or >= and <=Thanks
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules

Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules only to FM packages. This seems like a severe limitation given that Data Sets and Data Modules are being pushed as one of the main new features in Cognos 11
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Offer PowerPlay Studio with Cognos Analtyics on Cloud

Offer PowerPlay Studio with Cognos Analytics on Cloud.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

New capabilities for CSV and PDF export

As we want to make sure we follow security standards for our Cognos platform in Production environment (no PDF/CSV/XLS outputs allowed), we currently managed to remove PDF/CSV/XLS report export capability for our customers in Production - CA versi...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Bookmark on Cognos PDF output

The output PDF file from Cognos has no option of creating a bookmark. Although this option is available in other applications.working in a proj where cognos pdf output is needed to be uploaded.The generated cognos pdf report needs to be uploaded i...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Improve the custom banner feature

Consider this scenario... There is a problem with the daily loads or I have developed a cool new report and I want to notify all cognos users of this. The Cognos banner might be a great way to do just that... But my Cognos environment is managed &...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Change visualisation color manually

Being able to manually change visualization colors of bars/lines would be very helpful. Every now and again we encounter multiple uses of the same color while the pallet allows for more colors (see attachment). While this should not happen in the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration