Skip to Main Content
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


ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 15912

Add option to sort visualization items (like rows in crosstab) based on element attributes and hierarchy order (for OLAP)

We are missing option to sort axis and other items in visualization based on hierarchy natural order or based on elements attributes. Asc and desc options are not sufficient for most of the cases like years, periods or any dimension which has logi...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enable nesting items bellow and next to each other in visualization like it used to work in old cognos charts

We need to be able to drag elements next to each other and bellow each other in the same visualization to be able to combine elements and show what is requested in dsahboards. Especially important for OALP sources. Typically you want to have two l...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

"SELECT ONLY ON IDAA" privilege

We need ability to grant privilege to read data only from the specified table that's on the IBM DB2 Analytic Accelerator (IDAA). We need this capability to be able to fence the analytic workloads (ad-hoc SQLs and others) from the operational envir...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics OpenID Pass-through authentication to HANA

Cognos Analytics using OpenID with OKTA for two factor authentication and pass-through authentication to HANA
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Submit sub-groups

In Cognos Controller it's possible to submit (close) company reporting for a specific closing version, defined in general configuration. In larger groups next step is often, closing of groups/subgroups (including other journal types than the compa...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Check Grammer in WKC Descriptions

Submitted on behalf of Michelle Leslie, Standard Bank Group, Africa. (michelle@titude.co.za) When a user enters a description to describe an artefact (e.g. business term, reference data set..), the description should be checked for spelling and ...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Attach Supporting Document

Add the ability to attach supporting document when adding a comment. This functionality currently exists in Contributor / TM1 Applications.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Make multitimezone customizable to other timezones as UTC

MDM provides the Multi TimeZone feature. This feature only support UTC as the timezone and you have to enable this feature when you start using MDM, otherwise you have to migrate all datetime fields inside the database when you want to start using...
almost 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Displaying Time Zone in the Report Scheduler Window

Case ID : TS000068061The timings in the Cognos schedule is default to server time zone. It is getting difficult for the user to schedule timings when there are from different time zone. We are looking for an option where we can set the scheduler w...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM SPSS Statistics concurrent license manager via web portal

Please add a web portal for managing licenses and users instead of the traditional Sentinel RMS LM. The courrent UI style and the tools it provides are outdated and very old fashion. A revision of the current SPSS license tool to be managed via cl...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration