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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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GUI Filter Option "starts with" / "ends with" / "contains"

As it was implemented in Cognos 10, the filter option "starts with", "end with" and "contains" should be avaiable in the GUI filter dialog.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Ellipses in the Team Content provides a way to 'Create report'

Consumer/user do not have capability to create/delete report. However in the Team Content, by clicking on the ellipses located next to the folder/package, user can see ‘Create report’. A better approach would be to hide the ellipses altogether.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Find query subjects/items

Non-trivial packages (not the samples) have many query subjects and query items. Users creating or editing reports can get overwhelmed and frustrated trying to find data.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Delivered

Capability to import and use customized Visualization in Cognos Dashboard and Story

Idea is to get imported customized visualizations used in Cognos Dashboard. As of now we have limited set of Visualizations for Dashboard and stories. It would be good , if it is possible to use uploaded visualization in dashboarding and stories a...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Grouping of Columns in List Report

We are being tasked with developing a complex report that requires the use of Java Script and other advanced reporting techniques. One of the requirements is to be able to display groups of measures under a section in a list, much like a crosstab ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Expand the PKI

This is available in Qlikview. Whenever I need to expand an indicator, there is no way to do it.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Snap to grid and the ability to size objects in the layout via drag actions

It would assist with a wyswyg style UI if additional design capabilities were available in report studio. One main improvement would be the ability to resize and move objects on the page layout without having to access the object properties and ch...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Including Gateway as Default Installation

When installing Cognos Analytics, always require to choose "Optional Gateway" explicitly, and sometimes even selected, it doesn't really install properly. In some case, we may need to install Informix using Easy Install, which is the only way,...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Weighted Average or Percentage KPI Aggregation

If we need to calculate Total Salary Per Employee or Margin % on the Dashboard as measure KPI, currently we provide only Avg on Consolidation, but actually we need a weighted average or calculation after aggregation option while doing the consolid...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Ability to see licenses for admin users other than system admin

We Arte currently doing some work with one of our customer in the CA cloud instance. They are regularly adding new users, and we need to be able to easily keep check of how many users they are adding. I think it is important that in the portal, wh...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered