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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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Please bring back select/unselect check box

In earlier cognos releases prior to 11, we could select/unselect entries using check box, so I could select all entries by just one click. There is no way to do it in Cognos 11, making it extremely difficult and time consuming to select items.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

JSON Support as datasource

Some of our customers are using Datameer, PowerBI or Tableau for doing raw data exploration and using JSON as a datasource directly.Cognos Analytics also should support JSON as a datasource both for self service and enterprise bi
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Data Module - Select Unmatched Column Values

Right now, the data module has an option of joining 2 tables using a join key but restricts to only match the values of the selected columns but does not allow 'not equal to' operator or 'Greater than or lesser than' operator.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

css in common view spec.json not loading

I wrote a custom control that includes a view with perspective "common".When I use the cssStyles attribute, the following happens: - On the login page, Cognos tries to load the css, but it gets an error 401, so the css is not loaded.- when logging...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Add an Organizational chart visualization as part of the reporting application

Would like to have an organizational chart visualization in the reporting application.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Use a report as source to create a dataset

Starting from a package , a new dataset can be created. But i'm missing some features to assemble my new dataset. Only filtering is possible. Why it isn't possible to create a dataset from a report ? In reporting we have a lot more possibilities (...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Delivered

Display Logged In User Info in Home App Bar

Show the name of the logged in user in the Home App Bar instead of just a "person" icon.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Control Font size and height in cognos tabs - folders exploration

It is not possible to change the font size and the height of the row by default in Cognos tab exploration.The name of the object is not readable as it's cut in the middle. Reduce the size of the font will allow to display more characters.The numbe...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Client-Side Logging should be configurable so that an Administrator can enable/disble for Groups, Roles or Individual users

Client-Side Logging should be configurable so that an Administrator can enable/disble for Groups, Roles or Individual users
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Improve display of long report names when editing it in Properties

In Properties, when you edit a long report title you can't see the entire report name and must use your cursor to display parts of the name. Our report authors find this frustrating. Please improve the interface to display the entire name when edi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered