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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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Sizing of crosstab and tables in dashboards

You should make customization of text in crosstabs and tables in Dashboarding possible. Right now they often take way too much room when included in dashboards. Would really like to be able to set font size, padding and other so the tables could b...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

JSON Support as datasource

Some of our customers are using Datameer, PowerBI or Tableau for doing raw data exploration and using JSON as a datasource directly.Cognos Analytics also should support JSON as a datasource both for self service and enterprise bi
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Cascading Filter Prompts on Dynamic Dashboards

Global Filters and Tab Filters on Dynamic Dashboards cannot be assigned a Cascade Parent. Users can create List Widgets to use as filters but this takes up screen space (see requests for "drop down" style text/list widgets to get around this issue...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Cognos 11 Dashboard - Ability to Reuse Report Elements

Ability to reuse elements (i.e. Charts, Tables, etc..) created using the C11 Reporting Tool and incorporate them into a Dashboard. (just like in Cognos 10)
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Integrate Event Studio functionality into C11 Analytics core

Event Studio in v10.2.2 was a very handy toolset that allowed businesses to schedule jobs with much more detail than the regular scheduler. We were able to verify conditions, and create detailed step by step actions to take. Also, the communicatio...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

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

"Union All" Feature request in Data Modules in CA11

We started using the data module tool much more and realized how convenient it is to do calculations, filters and merge data between multiple sources.But we feel that adding a union all (we already have join) feature in the data modules will signi...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Search the available object in Package

No provision to search the object in the package.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Delivered

Unable to export a single page (in a multi-page report) in Excel/PDF in Cognos 11.0.7

In Cognos Analytics 11.0.7, in the multi-page report, the report author doesn't have the option to export a single page to pdf/excel. The report runs ONLY html. The "run Option (html/PDF/Excel etc.)" is unavailable. Please refer to attachment for ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Ability To Use and Customize D3 Javascript Visualizations in Cognos Analytics

Request is to be able to import any custom D3 javascript visualization into the Cognos Analytics Rave 2.0 engine and customize it using the RAVE customization tools. It should be available for use in Cognos Analytics against any "Report" or "Dashb...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered