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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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Enable TM1 Cube as a data source in Cognos Analytics Dashboard Creation

It would be great, if you enable TM1 Cube to be used as a data source for developing Cognos Dashboard in Cognos Analytics (v11).
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Ability to track changes in the permission groups/roles in the Cognos namespace

The internal audit department requires that changes to the groups or roles of the cognos namespace by administrators must be traceable. At least in a log that could be sent to a log server (is currently not logged according to the support).
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Delivered

Missing prompt-functions in report using a data module

As stated in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.1.0?topic=dmfm-framework-manager-features-not-supported-by-data-modules, some reporting functions are not supported with a data module as source for a report. The "Select & search pr...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 3 Delivered

Cognos Event Studio need to work in Edge

It's inconvenient to use Edge for reporting and dashboards, and only have to use Firefox for the event studio. Please give consideration to customers who are upgrading.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Enable Report Studio to generate PDF reports with bookmarks and navigation pane

We are converting reports from another BI platform. These reports are large with lots of groups within them. The other BI platform generates a PDF navigation pane on the left hand side using PDF bookmarks. This allows the user to quickly jump to t...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Delivered

Adjust measure axis scale within dashboard visualizations

Often times values in thousands or millions can make a major impact and to be able to view those variances currently in dashboard visualizations is difficult. This impacts all Cognos end users. Particularly those in finance.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Readd the ability to hide an email attachment which is available in Cognos Business Analytics V 10.2.2

In Cognos Business Analytics Version 10.2.2 has the ability to hide the Attach the report checkbox in the set the emails options GUI. In C11 this ability has been removed. Please see the following IBM link which shows how to hide the “Attach the r...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 12 Delivered

Ability to save upload file to a location other than my content

Currently when uploading a file it goes to my content, would like the ability to choose the location of where the file will be uploaded. The way it is now, you have to do a move to the location.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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

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