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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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Change Report's Package

Changing package report is pointing to
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Auto Cascading Multi and Single Value Prompts without Page Refresh

Auto Cascading Multi and Single Value Prompts without Page RefreshVery useful if the report is based on a large data setI've used other reporting tools which allows this featureAnd PLEASE do not say you have this in Active Report, that wasn't my RFE
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

when uploading a file, the ability to import multiple tabs of an excel file

When uploading a file, the ability to import multiple tabs of a single excel file.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

User Preference for Sort Order in Team Content List

The default sort order when browsing content under Team Content or My Content is Alphabetical, Ascending and it takes 4 mouse clicks to alter this to Modified Date, Descending. Please provide a User Preference to set a Sort Order such as Modified ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Cumulative Totals in Dashboards, Data Modules and Data Sets

Currently, Cumulative Totals (running total, moving total) are not possible in Dashboards, Data Modules and Data Sets. Please add them.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Create group and role on CA on Cloud Multi-tenant

We cannot create roles or groups at this time. Even though there is no maximum number of users, we are not allowed to group them and manage permissions.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Export data from Dashboard Visualization data area

Being able to see the data used to generate a visualization in the Visualization Data area is nice. However, when debugging a visualization it would be nice to export that data to Excel to examine the data more easily.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

When editing a report query, show query name

In Cognos 10 Report Studio, when working in a report query you could see the query highlighted in the query toolbar panel on the left side of the screen. In Cognos Analytics, the query starts highlighted, but as soon as any data item in the query ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Assess SQL Server 2019 and Windows Server 2019 for Cognos Analytics compatability

I have looked at all applicable software compatibility reports and the like and can see that Microsoft SQL Server 2019 is not yet supported as a content store or data source (for 11.1.1 and 11.1.4)...and that Microsoft Windows Server 2019 is not y...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

User Defined SQL within Report Studio access

Hi, Is it possible to include in future versions of Cognos the ability to allow specific users only access to read and execute report studio reports containing User Defined SQL but deny these users write access to the User defined SQL. Currently i...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered