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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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Auto Sort Date Fields

Auto sort date fields such as; Month Name, Day of Week. Ascending & descending typically does not make sense.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Expand support for PDF drill through functionality to Chrome and Firefox ESR

Background: PDF drill through functionality was designed around the Adobe NPAPI plugin. However, major browsers have ended support for NPAPI. - Chrome ended support in 2015.- Firefox will end support on the 32 bit ESR browser soon (early 2018). Su...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered
141 VOTE

Copy (Ctrl + C) single values/cells from a report that's run with full interactivity

Simply copying single values/cells from a report that's run with full interactivity is not possible, neither with CTRL + C, nor with right mouse -> Copy. Exporting the full report to Excel is not an option, as task takes much longer and only si...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Ability to connect to Azure Analysis Services (tabular model cubes)

We need to be able to connect to our Azure Analysis Services cubes ("tabular models"), otherwise the only option for the use case will be Power BI.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Support Rest API / Microservices as a data source

Need to be able to support cloud sources where the only allowed access to the data will be via an API, not ODBC or JDBC.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered
174 VOTE

Zero/Null Suppression to Dashboard Widgets

Please add zero / null suppression option to Cognos Analytics Dashboards similar to Reports context menu option.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered
273 VOTE

Dashboard - Combination Chart with More Options

The most used chart type on Cognos reports is the combination chart where multiple columns and lines are sharing the same axis. Currently Dashboard only supports one column and one line on different axis and different scale and this really prevent...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 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

View Mode dashboard, allow changing of top or bottom #

When a user has a dashboard open in view mode, allow them to change the top/bottom function and #
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