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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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Custom URL pass Locale()

In cognos 11.X you can not pass the locale by using run.outputLocale through a URL no more. Support advised to open a RFE
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Capture source reports for report views in Audit DB

Capture source reports for report views in audit database when report views are being executed. This information is crucial when customers want to perform content store audit and select reports not being used.Especially in case when end users work...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Guage Chart with single value and capability to custom color it

Need guage chart with single color so we can color it based on a metric % and the color palette can be custom as well. Many of our customers are demanding that for reports and dashboards.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Authentication Methods

Provide for authentication to Azure Snowflake databases via authentication by OAuth token, or authentication by AAD with external browser, or authentication using SSHK-keypair.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Delivered

Allow for more then one Custom Folder for a given Role

11.0.6 brings new feature in the form of Custom Folders that allow for buttons to folders to be placed in the left hand pane of the Glass Interface. You are unfortunately restricted to just a single Custom Button per role.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Adjust measure axis scale within dashboard visualizations

Often times values in thousands or millions can make a major impact and to be able to view those variances currently in dashboard visualizations is difficult. This impacts all Cognos end users. Particularly those in finance.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Request 100% Stacked Column Rave 2 Viz in CA11

Request is for a 100% stacked column chart. Via the Cognos 11 viz available online, that is not a current choice: https://www.ibm.com/communities/analytics/cognos-analytics-blog/cognos-business-intelligence-cognos-analytics-all-visualizations/
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Reduce the size of boxes in Recent list

Reduce the size of the boxes displaying the Recently used items.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Cognos 11 Report Context filter not passed to Related link

In Cognos 11, the user has been using the context filter value to pass value to the related links drill through. But in the report output the passed context filter value is not getting reflected.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Optimize conversion to native sql for "_xxx_between" common functions in DB2 LUW and activate database processing for "_months_between"

Many of our reports use the "_months_between" common function which is locally processed in DQM. Local processing is generally a problem and we want to process as many workload as possible directly on database. A deeper look into what happens behi...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Delivered