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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,


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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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Capability to modify the top filter bar and font and name in widgets

From our Cognos user feedbacks: we would like to move the top filter bar to the right side of page, plus change the size of filter bar(took to much space on the page). We also need to modify the column name or fonts in each widget. Since the model...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard, like date was selected for Axis, but to make sorting by sort key is not possible
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement SSO with AD using SAML 2 for Cognos 10.2.2

We are migrating to Cognos BI 10.2.2 and we need to implement SSO with AD using SAML 2. Will it be possible in the next version of Cognos BI ?
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide security model for source access in data modules

When creating a new data module, a user is presented with sources that he can pull data from.A security model is required, to enable/disable users to use specific sources or a complete group of sources.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Increasing report description field to handle more than 1024 characters.

In 11.1.7 version of reports, users where able to add comments in description for any amount length or atleast greater than > 1024 characters, the max we had currently is 2997 characters, But in 11.2.4 release a new parameter was added to cmmet...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Enable data formats for CSV and Excel Data

Data formats can be changed in the package and in the report itself. But this only affects the output formats HTML, Excel and PDF, but not the output formats CSV and Excel Data. Specifically, we want to change the timestamp format and increase gra...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add back Product Language "Slovak" in Cognos Analytis 11.0.13, 11.1* and above

The Cognos Analytics 11.0.13 and 11.1* no longer provide Slovak product language. This is an issue for user who do need their mother language to use the product when their English language is not strong enough. This might cause lose of customer in...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Reporting: Copy from report output

When viewing report output in the interactive viewer, I can select items from the output and use the copy tool on the floating toolbar to copy one or more values to the clipboard. The copy feature is not available if I have selected a summary item...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Scriptable Reports: Page module configuration

A page module can be used to control prompting -- default values for specific prompts, required prompt combinations, etc. But there is no way to configure a page module to be specific to a report. This leads to having a separate .js file for each ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Reports should be able to save output as data set (dataset), just like HTML, Excel, PDF, CSV etc

A report should be able to save output as a data set. Run a report to a data set should be just as simple as running a report to Excel, PDF etc. Whilst the functionality exists to create a new data set report from an existing report, this means we...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted