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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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Please Certify for Oracle 19c

Please Certify for Oracle 19c as this is needed as soon as possible for our customer upgrades.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Calculation Order or Priority or Aggregation rule

Currently if a Calculation is applied for getting % of Revenue or Price per unit for the data module. The summary level of such elements is not calculation driven. We need to select the Avg as an option which gives a simple avg. But in such cases ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Add Bullet Chart to pre-packaged RAVE2 visualizations

When positioning Cognos Analytics as a dashboarding solution to prospective and existing clients, I often reference the works of Stephen Few and others to make the case that Cognos is a 'best in class' solution that delivers visualizations in line...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Display SQL generated by Dashboard visualizations

Currently the only way to see the SQL generated by a dashboard is to have the system admistrator stop the query service, turn on JDBC logging, and start the Query Service. Starting/stopping the query service on a server is burdemsome and can not a...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Dashboarding: add a gantt chart

Dashboarding: add a gantt visualization, enables use of start&end dates, weight, and state.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Control where users upload files to a shared folder location

Control where users upload files to a shared folder location in Cognos 11.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

C11 Reporting, have users default to off for automatic group and summary behavior for list

For C11 Reporting we would like to set the default to NOT automatically group and summary behavior for lists. Currently the default is to HAVE automatic group and summary for lists. C10 the default was NOT to have automatic group and summary for l...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Add functionality for Setting a dashboard as Read Only. Being able to set the permissions to edit/delete at a dashboard level.

At the moment the permissions to edit or delete a dashboard need to be done at a user/group level. We need each user to keep its capabilities. We are trying to iframe a dashboard into our application. The problem is that after the user clicks anyw...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Waterall Visualization with Total

Support Waterfall visualization with total in Reporting, Dashboarding, and Storytelling
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Unable to update axis titles on dashboards

Unable to edit or transform axis titles on dashboard. Need to be able to change axis titles and allow for the ability to define the look of the axis labels. Can't define horizontal vs vertical vs 45 degree angle. Best viewing of axis labels change...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered