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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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Adding double quotes " for CSV files

Having the ability to have double quotes when exporting CSV files. This is required to use for Open Government Data. Option was working in Cognos 10.2.2, and currently no resolution for CA11.9. Example:* NOW: aaa bbb 123 * NEED: "aaa", "bbb", "123"
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Gantt Chart Horizontal rows (Vertical Axis) data hidden depending on screen size

In Gantt Chart depending on the screen size, some of the horizontal rows are hidden or content trimmed. For e.g., my chart does have 44 rows and when viewed in laptop (14' screen) it only show 20 rows where as on 27' monitor 43 rows were displayed...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to hide default legend of a diagram in Cognos BI

Ability to hide default legend of a diagram in Cognos BI When a conditional palette is created, their is a option to show conditional palette values as legend. The problem is that the legend appears two times, in the default legend and the conditi...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow a backup Notification server in Cognos Configuration

Allow an administrator to set a backup notification mail server. When the mail server is down for any reason, all notifications from the BI server go into 'Waiting' status. You also are unable to use Event Studio to trigger a notification to an ad...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report views is executing's in only one server in the distributed environments

Report views are executing on only one server. It is not distributing to multiple servers even it is available for processing. It picks up the first report view in my jobs, and it is starting to executing the reports. The remaining report views in...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TOP 10 - workspace advance

Top count functionality gives incorrect results with TM1 as source (after use function loses crosstab context).
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select Value filter's background color cannot be modified in Cognos Workspace

There is no capability built into Cognos Workspace to be able to modify the Select Value filter's background color or to have it pickup the background color from the Workspace. This is true for either the check box style (check box remains white) ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Custom URL for documents from Cognos for Office

In Cognos 10.2.2 it was possible to write a custom URL for documents uploaded by Cognos for Office.Here we had a search path and a default action URL.With the combination of action URL (the ID has to be replaced by the search path) we always had t...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Render authenticated external images in non-HTML formatted Cognos output

We run a report that embeds an HTML image sitting on a non-Cognos webserver in the same domain. When running the report in HTML output format, the image appears in the report. When running the report in PDF and Excel 2007 format however, no image ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide option to create VCD files compatible with Windows or Unix, Linux paths.

Please provide option in Transformer that specifies the VDC file to be created with specific Windows or Unix\Linux paths depending on the intended target platform for the Powercube, or both in a mixed platform environment.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration