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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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schedule deliverer as a property

The user that an email-based schedule is sent from should be a property on the schedule. Currently, the sender of the email is the last user that modified the schedule. This can get confusing as a system admin may add/remove recipients etc on a sc...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Dashboard crosstab needs to aggregate properly

When using crosstab with calculated columns (percentage) and users nests rows, the subtotals are shown as NaN% I would expect the crosstab to handle the order of calculation by default where it calculated the inner column/first subtotal first and ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Format label alignment on data player on dashboard and report

have a data player with many labels / filter items that it plays through (eg. each week for a year). I want to format the labels to be angled or something like that so that they are readable.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Logoff URL Improvements

There are two scenarios that don't seem to be currently supported in relation to the logoff URL that would be very beneficial. If a session times out due to inactivity, it doesn't appear to redirect to the logoff URL, if configured, which can lead...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics Dashboard - Link Tabs together (Hyperlinks)

One of our customers needs to have this navigation scenario implemented in Cognos Analytics Dashboard: Ability to link Dashboard tabs together by having a hyperlink on a text item or box in a tab that a user can click on and that takes the user di...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to change label in Dashboard

It should be possible to change the label of the data imported to dashboard. Currently this data property is greyed out and can not be changed.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos URL parameters to specify user Content and Product Locales in Cognos Analytics 11

Previous versions of Cognos were able to to specify the Content and Product locales in a URL. Please provide the same functionality with Cognos Analytics 11 so a URL can be created to specify the Content and Product locale that will be displayed w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

COGNOS URL to customized extensions even if use Perspective=Home&factoryMode=True

How to default the COGNOS URL to customized extensions even if use Perspective=Home&factory Mode=True
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Modeling Function to Pivot / Unpivot tables

Many tables are stored in efficient database structures. It is very common the data needs to be pivoted from a row based table to a column-based table in order to calculate across columns (or vice-versa). Pivot and unpivot are common sql functions...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Produce Cognos output in MS Word

Need to be able to run a report in OpenPages, and have the ability to edit it in MS Word. We currently have a report designed that pulls from fields in multiple objects, designed to replicate an Operational Risk - RCSA report we used to produce in...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration