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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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support for deployment packages via sftp process.

When customers transition to CAoC the only way to get reports deployed is via PMR. This is time consuming and PMR are not always followed up immediately, especially when timezone differences exist between customer and cloud operations. when custom...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Support for wrap text in a crosstab

[PH00899] Text in a crosstab column not being word wrapped in 11.0.11
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Enable Drillthroughs from PDF Files opened in Acrobat Reader

For security reasons, our users are not allowed to open PDF files inline in their browser. Instead, these files always opened externally in Acrobat Reader. However, drillthroughs are not possible from there: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/lin...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

FIPS140-2 Bouncy Castle Compliant

In reviewing the security elements for IBM Cognos and it has come to our attention that it uses the "BouncyCastle" java archive, which is NOT validated for FIPS 140-2, which is a DoD security requirement for software encryption tools.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Improve/enhance conditional formatting experience

It would be great if conditional formatting is made easy. It's not an intuitive experience even for some other vendors.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Ability to visually overlap/embed targets with current performance data in CA Dashboarding

Ability to visually overlap/embed targets with current performance data in Cognos Analytics Dashboarding. We would like to set visual 'markers' for targets/goals or 'pace to goal' that are embedded within a visual component (e.g. bar graph)
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Data Module - Select Unmatched Column Values

Right now, the data module has an option of joining 2 tables using a join key but restricts to only match the values of the selected columns but does not allow 'not equal to' operator or 'Greater than or lesser than' operator.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Pie chart and other visualizations only displays either percent or numbers. It cannot be both.

We are trying to change the format of the measure used in pie chart from percent to number but it does not work. We would like to have a checkbox of having both numbers and percent format.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Control Font size and height in cognos tabs - folders exploration

It is not possible to change the font size and the height of the row by default in Cognos tab exploration.The name of the object is not readable as it's cut in the middle. Reduce the size of the font will allow to display more characters.The numbe...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Location based language maps in the visualization map

Location based language maps in the visualisation map
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered