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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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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

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

Cascading Prompts in Dashboards

We have developed a dashboard that includes prompts that provide the user with levels of our company hierarchy (ex. Opco, Bus Unit, Region, Branch ). We want the users to be able to choose an Operational Unit, and this choice will filter the Bus U...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Sort and Cascade Filters in Dashboards

It would be great if we can treat the top filters for dashboards as data items that we can sort on, filter to display values of interest and cascade.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Delivered

Cognos Analytics v11, LDAPS and FIPS Enabled

We are planning to deploy Cognos Analytics v11.x on Redhat for a major federal government. Integrating with AD/LDAP and FIPS Enabled. However, your product does not support FIPS enabled as of today. Our environment requires FIPS enabled. Thus, nee...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

One solution for uploading/downloading physical files to/from Cognos Analytics on Cloud Environments

Provide customers the ability to self-serve the movement of required files directly to/from Cognos Analytics on Cloud in the same manner Powercubes are currently handled. Include files such as images, content, fonts, data drivers, certificates, ja...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Selfservice to upload Custom Controls and Images in Cognos Analytics on Cloud

Feature or way to create folders and uploading Images and Custom Controls as Self-service in Cognos Analytics on Cloud.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Cognos 11 - Context filters pass to package level drill-through

Context filters set on a source report should pass and filter a target drill-through report. Package level drill-through was added to Report mode in 11.0.7.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Option to copy object location in Cognos

We have many reports that live many folders deep in Team content. In order to get the navigation path for a particular report, we used to be able to copy the bread crumbs displayed in Cognos 10 or there was a navigation path in the report properti...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered