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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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All tabs/This tab filters exclusion

In Cognos Analytics as of now, when filters are added to All tabs/This tab filter, they are applied for all visualizations. Quite often it will be useful to allow to exclude/avoid applying the top filters in individual visualization (the only work...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

KPI Distance precision

For the KPI widget, add a way to control the decimal places in the Target distance percentage. Currently only the Target value can be formatted. It is set with 2 decimal places. I want no decimal places.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Avoid message box when generating SQL/MDX

Avoid message box when generating SQL/MDX, every time clicking on the button is annoying. And our report developers generate SQL/MDX very often.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Automatically renew past/current activities

Renew past/current activities automatically or add a renew button
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Saving the Reportview from Report defaults to location of report instead of My Content

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 FP2, when the report is run in the background from standard reports folders and saving the report view it is defaulting to team content . Would like to see if there is any setting on server side to point save the reports...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Allow alt text for brandImage in theme customization.

The Cognos Analytics theme allows administrators to customize the text and images of the welcome page using brandText and brandImage. The brandImage contains the organization name and is very clear for visually acute users. To accommodate the visu...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Full Interactivity mode for lists and crosstabs in saved HTML outputs

By default, if you run a report in full interactivity mode, a user can interact with the output in lists, crosstabs and visual data containers. He can filter, sort, group and summarize data in these containers. But if a user schedules the same rep...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide Team Content for ordinary users

In Cognos 10.2 it was possible to hide the public folder using "consumer_root" in system.xml. In 11.2.1 I have the ability to set the "reports" folder as the custom folder but team content is still visible. setting security is not possible as the ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Enhance ClassCastException to Support Integration with Dynatrace

We need to submit a request to enhance Cognos Analytics. Dynatrace is a system monitoring tool. It monitors your infrastructure (Server memory, CPU, etc.), as well as the application (in memory monitoring). When Dynatrace is enabled there is a fea...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Keyboard shortucts and keyboards arrows for query explorer

I would like to use keyboard arrows or command such pageup pagedown to be able to move between query items Using only mouse and point and click to select it is in some situations very slow and not smart.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration