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


Status Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 12, 2015

In business advance with french language in report user does not see text item.

We create template for Report Studio with conditional report header (Text Item) (Content language FR or EN condition variable embedded intotemplate).

As I understand Business Insight Advanced used same templates as Report Studio.

In Business Insight Advanced (10.1.1) and in Cognos Workspace Advanced (10.2.1) prompt 'Cliquer deux fois pour éditer le texte'doesn't show up in Page Preview mode when User properties set Content language to French (It does show in English or if only Product Language set to French).

It does show up in Page Design mode. When user add text in Page Design mode and run report - the text field still empty.

And there is no way to modify this text field based on report variable value ( how it can be done in Report Studio)

This prompt corresponded to the closed (empty) tag or the same tag with text in between (Text to be shown.) in report specification.

Template defined in Template.xml file for ReportStudio.

User cannot type in report header Text Item in Business Inside Advance when using bilingual template.

User can't use Business Insight Advanced in French language or when he create bi-lingual report.