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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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Drill Through Capability from a Dashboard to another Dashboard

Our team uses Dashboards for scoreboards and the parameters inside the scoreboards are individual dashboards. Currently we are unable to tie the dashboards created in CA11 with other reports or dashboards. We can drill through from dashboard to a ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

allow setting of capability on dashboard module for users

We want to be able to set the capabilities for the dashboard module in a more detailed way: specific groups can only run an existing dashboard (and not change/edit it), others can also change an existing dashboard or create a new one (similar to c...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Waterall Visualization with Total

Support Waterfall visualization with total in Reporting, Dashboarding, and Storytelling
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered
230 VOTE

Customization of new Homeview screen

We have more than 3 clients currently asking and wanting to customize their home screen in Cognos Analytics. The new default (11.0.7+) has additional "tiles" that show recently ran reports and a quick links section at the right that shows some IBM...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Delivered

Cognos 11 Report Context filter not passed to Related link

In Cognos 11, the user has been using the context filter value to pass value to the related links drill through. But in the report output the passed context filter value is not getting reflected.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Separate ability to run dashboard from ability to create dashboard

Modify security for dashboards to allow consumers to be able to run dashboard without granting them access to create dashboards.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Enhance Focus Mode On Dashboard Widgets

When viewing individual widgets on a dashboard you should be able to go into full Focus Mode enlarging that widget to the full size of the screen.Similar to capabilities in Microsoft Power BI.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered
113 VOTE

Improve the search functionality to allow a location filter

Today the Search feature list all objects independent of the location. It does not allow to search from a specific starting point This cause a huge list of search result. Improvement would be to add a filter where a location can be defined that li...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Dashboarding: add a gantt chart

Dashboarding: add a gantt visualization, enables use of start&end dates, weight, and state.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered
157 VOTE

Create Read-Only Dashboard Security Option

Have the ability to give consumers read-only access to dashboards. So: view and run, interact with existing prompts, but NOT create or edit.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered