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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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Cumulative Totals in Dashboards, Data Modules and Data Sets

Currently, Cumulative Totals (running total, moving total) are not possible in Dashboards, Data Modules and Data Sets. Please add them.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Unable to export a single page (in a multi-page report) in Excel/PDF in Cognos 11.0.7

In Cognos Analytics 11.0.7, in the multi-page report, the report author doesn't have the option to export a single page to pdf/excel. The report runs ONLY html. The "run Option (html/PDF/Excel etc.)" is unavailable. Please refer to attachment for ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Save to the File System in Cognos Clouds

Current onsite cognos environment allows Save to the file system which is not available in Cognos Cloud environment.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Add screen tip option in Cognos 11 to show reprot description along with report name when we hover mouse over report name

See report description when we hover over report name from report's list in cognos 11.6
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

KPI Visualization

When using Dashboards to display KPIs, the Number widget/visualization shows only the number (and name) from the data source.This RFE suggests a (new) KPI Visualization that instead takes two numbers and can be adjusted / customized using properti...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

DISABLE DEFAULT REPORT AUTHORING TEMPLATES

We use Cognos in such a way that we need to restrict users from creating Active Reports. When you create a New Report, the first screen that displays prompts you to choose a template: Blank report or blank active report. There is no way to disable...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Show tooltips in the Dashboard metadata tree for FM Packages

Tooltips created in Framework Manager are very useful for explaining the meaning of data items and query subjects to the end user. They appear in the Reporting UI metadata tree, but don't appear in the Dashbaord UI metadata tree. This should be co...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Detailed descriptions on reports or other objects do not show

In version 10 easy to see the detailed descriptions on reports or other objects. In version, 11 the only way I can figure out how to see these descriptions is to individually click on each one
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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

Cognos 11 Dashboard - Ability to Reuse Report Elements

Ability to reuse elements (i.e. Charts, Tables, etc..) created using the C11 Reporting Tool and incorporate them into a Dashboard. (just like in Cognos 10)
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered