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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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Pie chart and other visualizations only displays either percent or numbers. It cannot be both.

We are trying to change the format of the measure used in pie chart from percent to number but it does not work. We would like to have a checkbox of having both numbers and percent format.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Need more visualizations like Gantt Chart for Project Mgmt , bar race chart animation in Dashboards/Reports

create more advanced vizs and keep it somewhere same like Power BI Marketplace and ppl who have signed in and using Cognos should be able to download and use advanced charts which are useful for many complex data representations.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Delivered

View another user dashboard without the edit option

I made a dashboard for a cognos consumer. I delivered it, the consumer when open it sees the edit/preview icon. I want the consumer to just open the dashboard, filtering the data and use the various drill down without has the ability to edit or sa...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Support of Informix 14.10 as data source

At the moment, Cognos BI 10.2.2 does not fully support Informix 14.10 as data source, which leads to problems and abortions when running reports: Obviously, Cognos query engine generates SQL code, which cannot be executed within Informix 14.10. Th...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Add capability to remap a table in a data module to a new source

In framework manager, we have had the capability to remap a model query subject to a new source for years... it seems this isn't available/possible in data modules, yet would be a significant improvement to give the modeler this capability, like t...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Please bring back select/unselect check box

In earlier cognos releases prior to 11, we could select/unselect entries using check box, so I could select all entries by just one click. There is no way to do it in Cognos 11, making it extremely difficult and time consuming to select items.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Display Logged In User Info in Home App Bar

Show the name of the logged in user in the Home App Bar instead of just a "person" icon.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Enable grouping on categories (when nested along X-Axis) within a dashboard visualization

Enable grouping on bars (when nested along X-Axis) within a dashboard visualization. When working with visualizations within Dashboard in CA 11.0.7, one requires the ability to expose grouping capabilities along X-Axis categories (or in CA 11.0.7,...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Allow Extensions to be Uploaded to Cloud Environments

Provide the ability to Customize the UI in Cloud Environments. Currently this is not possible because Extensions are not supported in Cloud Environments.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Cognos Analytics: Make the help helpful

Cognos Analytics 11.0.x The help in Cognos Analytics is not helpful. There is a single help icon that always does the same thing. The page it leads to (http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.cbi.doc/welcome....
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered