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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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Suppress “your report is running' message when user select any Cascading Prompts on prompt page

Currently at NYC DSS agency, Management Console Cognos/ Netezza reporting system having 100 reports developed by IBM and maintained by DSS ITS. As per user requirement, we would like IBM Cognos software to suppress ‘your report is running' messa...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Confusion Matrix for decision tree

The view of confusion matrix is not available when Decision tree is generated for data analysis . It should be made available.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Setting to control the default option of Conflict Resolution when saving reports to file system

When we save a report to file system, the default option for Conflict Resolution is Replace. Since we want to use the Time Stamp option, we will have to check the option every time. We would like to have a setting that we can set Time Stamp as the...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Move the 'Edit Data Item Label' button left in toolbar. This option is selected many times more than others (such as sort).

In building many reports I must change most of the field labels on the actual report the user gets. I must select the three ellipses and in the drop down select the 'Edit Data Item Label'. This is time consuming. This is used much more often than ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automated Axis title with multiple metrics in Dashboard

In the current dashboard, the product automatically rendering the text "Values" whenever we are trying to use the multiple metrics. IS there any way we can customize it to change to meaningful verbiage
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Schedule Default Format Sync Report Format

1. 在Cognos 10.2.1,設定排程時,預設的Format會跟直接執行報表預設的Format一致(ex. 報表預設執行為Excel 2007,設定排程時,預設的Format就會在Excel 2007)2. 在Cognos 11.0.11,不管報表的預設執行Forma...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Re-add dialog box help as per Cognos 10

In Cognos 10, all dialog boxes had a help link in the top right corner but this is no longer the case in Cognos 11.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

LCM: Ability to consider stylesheets (.css) in report comparison

LCM should test and show differences between ReportStyles.css on source and target if this is a reason for a failed successful comparison.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Persistent or User-configured Width for Navigation Menu

We would like the width of the navigation menu on the left side of the portal to be either persistent or configurable by the user.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Change Source and Target Servers

We are unable to change the source or target server on a LifeCycle Manager project. This would be very helpful because we use one server for normal report development and another server for upgrade testing and this would allow us to use the same r...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration