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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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Deactivate report object toolbar

We would like to have the possibility to disable the "report object toolbar" in the Cognos viewer with full interactivity when executing the report. Before the 11.2 version, we had'ent not this toolbar in html output.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Delivered

Support of Python in Cognos Analytics

I would like to have support for python in Cognos Analytics
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Cognos Event Studio need to work in Edge

It's inconvenient to use Edge for reporting and dashboards, and only have to use Firefox for the event studio. Please give consideration to customers who are upgrading.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Remove Preview as default when editing Data Sets

It is difficult to edit data sets that source large volumes of data because default when editing is to preview the data set. It sometimes takes 30 minutes for our data sets to load data into preview mode before we can start editing our data set.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Add more lines to line-column chart

Add more values to line-column chart line field, similarly like on a simple line chart. Lines would be differentiated by colors.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Report Visualization v11.1 limitation (drill-through options and full-interactivitymandatory)

It is necessary to have drill-through options with the new visualizations 11.1. In the other hand Full interactivity is mandatory to use these new visualizations but it create to much confusion for users coming from the old versions.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Ability to create custom Dashboard Templates

Current templates provided with Cognos 11 are a good start. But it soon becomes necessary to create your own templates. There needs to be a way to create a variety of dashboard templates.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

It would be good if Cognos Transformer 11 supports TLS 1.2

It would be good if Cognos Transformer 11 supports TLS 1.2If the cognos analytics components communicate securely between the dispatcher and gateway, Cognos Transformer 11 does not support connecting to the dispatcher by using TLS 1.2, it only sup...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

enable mobile apps for app based CONDITIONAL ACCESS in order to integrate Cognos with MSN Intune security

Enablement of new mobile app "Cognos Analytics Mobile" and ideally the older "Cognos Analytics Reports" for app based CONDITIONAL ACCESS: This will allow integration of Cognos Analytics with Microsoft Intune security described here: https://docs.m...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 3 Delivered

Running one page of report in pdf during development

In cognos reporting, the customer wants to run a page in pdf without executing the entire report.It can be done in html but not in pdf.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered