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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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Enable 'take ownership' without having to give full permission

After importing content from onprem to cloud, all the ownership is set to the admin that did the import. Already had problems after that because of max upload restrictions of 500 Mb er user. Users that have write permissions should be able to take...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

"No Data" option on Dashboard visualisations

We need the ability to display something more intuitive to users if filtering a dashboard makes a visualisation return "No Data".
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add feature that would let a Cognos admin to request a user's credentials be refreshed

One logical...even likely...scenario is that a Cognos admin views the license usage and discovers that one of the license groups has more users assigned to it than are actually owned by the customer. After researching which user has been granted t...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Graded Scale conditional formatting to Reporting Lists and Crosstabs, and Dashboard crosstabs

Excel has Graded Scale conditional formatting... when we are asked to replicate a report that uses Graded Scale formatting, it is not possible in Cognos
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Drillthrough option to open in New window

It will be good to have the ability to drill-through from dashboard to open in new window, like from Report if we can have check box to select this option it will be nice
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

New option for load balancing

Especially at the beginning of a month our customers execute masses of reports at once. The queue within Cognos is huge. Most of the reports run fast, but there are also many reports that run longer (> 30 min. and runtime is even longer in this...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Login portal with prefered Product and content language using a parameterized URL

m_productLocale and m_contentLocale parameters doesn't work in Cognos 11. In 10.2.2, we can use the following URL to embedded in our web application.https://sde-bds/ibmcognos/cgi-bin/cognosisapi.dll?b_action=xts.run&m=portal/main.xts&m_pro...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Scheduling via e-mail

As dashboard can be exported in PDF and can also be sent via email, it would be great for our users if Dashboard could also be schedules and users can receive it.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Link to Source Report for Report Views

Link to source report from report views has been removed. We use lot of report views with set prompts and do change these prompjt values from time to time also point report views to other reports when a newly developed report is to used.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add custom sort on visualization at report level

We need to do custom sorting on charts based on users need. Right now it only allows sorting as ascending or descending.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration