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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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Add functionality to crosstab summaries in dashboards

I had a user wanting to show a summary at the after the columns, but not under the rows. It is all or nothing today. It would be nice to be able to add summaries like you can in reports.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Hover Text on Dashboard

Dashboard needs to be clean and have short titles due to real estate being valuable on the page. If the hover text function could have a full title and definition of terms for specific visualizations / metrics then we can keep the clean look and f...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release

Allow Table in Cognos dashboard to show message 'No data available' in case selected data is not available

Hey Team! In the dashboard, I was showing data in the table visualization. It is working fine if the data is present. However, if there is no data available, the table is left blank and only displays the headers, which is not a user-friendly view....
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Browser last prompt location

Scenario: When the report have a lot of prompts and user needs to scroll down to see all the prompts. Problem: re-prompt button causes page refresh and web page returns at the beginning of the page.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

When a direct user access has been granted on a report and the user access has been taken away on other reports/folders

During the support from IBM on the issue of Cognos permissions (IBM Support Case TS015507478), we found out that after a direct user access has been granted on a report, and the user access has been taken away on other reports/folders, this custom...
24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Configure Cognos Mail Server using OAuth

With the deprecation of basic authentication scheduled for October, the configuration of our SMTP server (Exchange online) will no longer work as this uses basic authentication. We need a way to use OAuth to connect to our 365 smtp server. There i...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Optional Date Prompt Check Box should be Unchecked by default

The optional behaviour of the date prompt is different to every other cognos prompt. it is even different to the date prompt when it is used in Range mode! When a date prompt is made optional, a check box appears to show if it should or should not...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted
110 VOTE

Missing functionality from C10 to C11: "Send report as email" or "Email Report"

In previous versions of Cognos Business Intelligence (10.2.x) we had the option to send a report by email directly from the Cognos Viewer - this option no longer exists in Cognos Analytics (11.0.6). See use case for details and screenshots.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

License - users vs viewer

Our company is reviewing our existing license allocation and currently when I go into the License section within Cognos Analytics - it shows that whenever a new user is created and logs into the environment, it is flagged as an analytics users not...
24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

The feature of viewing package data sources is not present in Cognos11

The feature of viewing package data sources in package > actions > more is not present in Cognos11. We like this feature to be in Cognos 11
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration