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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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Formatting of KPI and summary visualizations i dashboards

I would like to be able to format the number and not just the title of Summary and KPI visualizations. I would like to change the size and the color. I know I can change the color of a summary KPI but it is limitted colors, and I am today not able...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Access to Content Store Data

Ultimate Software takes user requests for future development actions. The largest request we have by far is the ability for a BI administrator to be able to report on how their content is secured at this time. Currently, for auditing purposes, cus...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Dashboard function setting individually on packages

The authorization for the "Dashboard" function can currently only be authorized at the top level in Cognos Administration under Security/Functions. However, we also need the ability to allow assignment individually to packages, as some users shoul...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Scheduling reports on a 4/4/5 or 4/5/4 week period basis in Cognos Analytics

We need the ability to schedule reports/ report views & jobs etc. to run a 4/4/5 week period basis, so for example to schedule a report to start on say January 1st 2021 then every 4 weeks, then again in 4 weeks, and then in 5 weeks time, and r...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

No way to delete all saved reports at once

There is no way to remove report versions other than deleting them on every report.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to migrate Dynamic Cubes between environments

Currently, it is not possible to migrate a Dynamic Cube from a Development / Test environment to a Production environment (other than Package and associated content). The cube model is attached to the data source, which is likely the reason this f...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Users From Using Cognos Groups And Roles As Email Recipients

Currently, any user can setup a Cognos report, subscription, or schedule to email any Cognos group or role. This means any Cognos group or role can be used as an email DL. For Cognos Admins and Focals, this is a very nice feature. However, end use...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics Subscription without scheduling capability

We use cognos analytics version 11.0.6/7 and we have disabled scheduling capabilities for end users but want to retain their subscription functionality.As per the PMR subscription and scheduling capabilities are inter-related but we need only one ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Bilingual filters works in Report but not working in Dashboard

When I create a bilingual Dashboard, the default language is English, the filters are in English. But If I change the language in “My Preference” to French, the filters are not selected (not switched to French).
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Modify subscription options to show/remove or change default

Allow a role (or all roles) going thru > chosing properties > customization > features, that running a report and subscribing to it, allows you to remove the print report delivery option. Also allow to change the default to send report by...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration