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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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Increasing report description field to handle more than 1024 characters.

In 11.1.7 version of reports, users where able to add comments in description for any amount length or atleast greater than > 1024 characters, the max we had currently is 2997 characters, But in 11.2.4 release a new parameter was added to cmmet...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Enable data formats for CSV and Excel Data

Data formats can be changed in the package and in the report itself. But this only affects the output formats HTML, Excel and PDF, but not the output formats CSV and Excel Data. Specifically, we want to change the timestamp format and increase gra...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Name tabs in Cognos dashboards dynamically

I want to name tabs in Cognos dashboards dynamically. The use case is that I have a tab which shows current year data, one for 5 year data and one for 10 year data. I can name them in line with that but it would be better if they were named 2020, ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improvements to Assistant AI

I feel the assistant is a step in the right direction, but there is much that can be done to improve the experience. Instead of relying on specified data sets, I'd like to define a series of default datasets that should be used unless otherwise sp...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Job History Run Details added back to the main portal

Cognos 10.2 allowed users to review job history details from the Portal. Cognos 11 does not permit this. You can see if a job succeeded or failed but that is all you can see. You cannot see which steps failed or how long each step took to run. The...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard tooltips for duplicate items

Current functionality means that if a data item is on a visualisation as both a field and a tooltip it won't show in the tooltip. For example, if the Revenue data item is used for bar length and again in the visualisation tooltip, then the tooltip...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Visualization: Able to assign colors to Attibutes

Being that the new Dashboard in V11 is interactive. Clicking on a specific area of a visualization act as a filter to the other visualizations within the dashboard. And you color palettes are sorted by the metric value. So when you pick a value (a...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Routing Rule Capability for Cognos Data Sets

Add the ability to assign a routing rule to data sets, like we can with FM packages.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Renewing credentials

'Automatically renew trusted credential' in Cognos Analytics 11 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21998776 In SSO it is impossible to automatically renew trusted credential
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Call pre-executed Active Report output version

The customer wants to call a pre-executed report output version. If we use the URL that is in the new "share"-option in C11R05 the report is executed, the saved output-version is not called.If we use the following syntax the cognos navigation on t...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration