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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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Ability to monitor Cognos Product roles vs. License Roles on Cognos

We use Cognos BI across our organization for reporting purposes; we use Cognos to deliver solutions to our clients; We have long time challenged with understanding how the Cognos product roles (Eg. System Admin, Authors, Consumer etc) mapped to Co...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Cognos 10.2.2-Workspace Adv, Dynamic Drill to detail report does not pass context filters.

In Cognos 10.2.2-Workspace Advanced, the feature Dynamic Drill to detail report does not pass context filters. It passes the dimension values based on the selected intersection but does not pass the context filter value. This feature Works fine in...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Dashboards upgrade after upgrade of Cognos Analytics

All dashboards need to be upgraded manually after upgrade of Cognos Analytics to a newer version. The reports can be upgraded by the content job but dashboards couldn't. It will take a lot of efforts from our side to update all dashboards manually...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 5 Delivered

Cascading Prompts in Dashboards

We have developed a dashboard that includes prompts that provide the user with levels of our company hierarchy (ex. Opco, Bus Unit, Region, Branch ). We want the users to be able to choose an Operational Unit, and this choice will filter the Bus U...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Generate SQL for queries defined based on a Data Module

Add the ability to display the SQL generated by a query when the query is created from a Data Module.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

List and Crosstab Visualization Lagging Behind Power BI and Tableau

A lot have been spoken about Charts and other candy like visualization BUT one part that is missing in Cognos Analytic Dashboard is a flexible, adjustable and better looking LISTS and CROSSTABSI've heard that LISTS and CROSSTABS aren't that useful...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Client-Side Logging should be configurable so that an Administrator can enable/disble for Groups, Roles or Individual users

Client-Side Logging should be configurable so that an Administrator can enable/disble for Groups, Roles or Individual users
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Ability to visually overlap/embed targets with current performance data in CA Dashboarding

Ability to visually overlap/embed targets with current performance data in Cognos Analytics Dashboarding. We would like to set visual 'markers' for targets/goals or 'pace to goal' that are embedded within a visual component (e.g. bar graph)
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Location based language maps in the visualization map

Location based language maps in the visualisation map
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Add Customization capability to Directory Administrators

Grant Customization capabilities to Directory Administrators.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered