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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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Create Read-Only Dashboard Security Option

Have the ability to give consumers read-only access to dashboards. So: view and run, interact with existing prompts, but NOT create or edit.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Option to export results to excel when used "view tabular data" for Join query

User wants to have a option to export "View tabular data" results to excel for join queries.Right now, when you click on this option, it shows data in HTML but doesn't have option to export to excel
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Customize Dashboard Templates

As an author of a dashboard in Cognos Analytics, I would like to be able to customize my own templates to adapt them to each case.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Make cognos chart legends scrollable

We have a report with a bar graph along with the legend. The legend is dynamic, i.e. the values come from the prompt page. User can select few or all. When the user selects "all", the list is large enough that the graph legend is not able to accom...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Allow conditional formatting in dashboard

When we drag a measure into table, we are able to see distribution of values. We can alter the range there and be able to select color pallette. It would be nice to simply drag a measure into a tile on a dashboard and be able to do some conditiona...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 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

Control where users upload files to a shared folder location

Control where users upload files to a shared folder location in Cognos 11.
about 6 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

Allow Scheduling on landing page for Recents

On the landing page there is the option to select properties and navigate to the scheduling tab but when you try to enter the scheduling information the focus goes off the page and there is no way to get to the scheduling options.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Add Location of object into startpage Recent overview

We would like to see that the location of an object that is shown in the Recent list on the Cognos Welcome page, is added into the Recent list in such a way that it is not needed to open the properties of this object first and clicking the Advance...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered