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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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Translate Chart Title in Dashboard

Ability to translate a chart title. We want to be able to add it to the things that get translated in the dashboard translation tool
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Adding User to Groups: One place to add a User to Multiple Role/Group at a time

Strange enough that you can add multiple Users to a Role or Group but you can't do the opposite It gets a bit or quite frustrating when you need to repeat the same steps to find Roles/Groups to add a User to
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to limit report output options

We have sensitive report content that we don't want the user to have the ability email/export/save. Only view in Cognos Connection
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

ENH: Ability to dynamically sort crosstab reports in Cognos Viewer

Dynamic sorting is a pretty common feature request amongst clients. While reports can be rerun with sorting altered being able to do it on the fly can be a time saver and also adds to the ""wow factor"" in a manner similar to active report functio...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Cognos JavaScript API

When used with a value prompt the function addValues() ignores the 'Display' value passed into it and instead selects the first list item that matches the specified 'Use' value.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Header navigation not working in accessibility report

We are using classic viewer in an accessible report. We were unable to navigate to different headers (H1, H2...) even though Headers are setup in Tables Cells. Currently we are running JAWS-2019 version in firefox 68.0 ESR. Below keys are also not...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Functionality already exists

Refreshing License Count from Cognos Administration

In Cognos Analytics 11, the license count is defective. When user is not a member of any Administrators' group, it still counted as the administrator license.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Hiding 'Send report to mobile device' option under Report delivery method in Cognos 11 Cloud

Hi Team, On Cognos 11 cloud portal for any report when we choose Report 'Run as' > 'Run in background' > 'Advanced' > 'Delivery', we can see 'Send report to mobile device' option. we want to hide this option for group of users (based o...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Map queryitems to the layer after imported a shapefile or geojson in mapbox

Map queryitems to the layer after imported a shapefile or geojson in mapbox
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Automatically Renew Credentials with Azure

We're on Azure and our users don't like having to renew their credentials every time they change their password. Is there no way to automate this securely? If their credentials aren't current, their scheduled jobs and reports won't run when they'r...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists