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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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Schedule Default Format Sync Report Format

1. 在Cognos 10.2.1,設定排程時,預設的Format會跟直接執行報表預設的Format一致(ex. 報表預設執行為Excel 2007,設定排程時,預設的Format就會在Excel 2007)2. 在Cognos 11.0.11,不管報表的預設執行Forma...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Report Studio - XML specification modifcation

Report specification can not be modified in the report. I have to copy to clipboard, modify the XML outside of Cognos and then open from the clipboard. However, new object is created with new IDs and so on.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

LCM: Ability to consider stylesheets (.css) in report comparison

LCM should test and show differences between ReportStyles.css on source and target if this is a reason for a failed successful comparison.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Re-add dialog box help as per Cognos 10

In Cognos 10, all dialog boxes had a help link in the top right corner but this is no longer the case in Cognos 11.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Persistent or User-configured Width for Navigation Menu

We would like the width of the navigation menu on the left side of the portal to be either persistent or configurable by the user.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable advanced routing based on Studio application

Advanced routing in IBM administration console allows only based on package, role and group routing sets. It will be beneficial to add enhancement to route based on studio application where report has been built.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change Source and Target Servers

We are unable to change the source or target server on a LifeCycle Manager project. This would be very helpful because we use one server for normal report development and another server for upgrade testing and this would allow us to use the same r...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos BI compatibility with Oracle 12c Multitenant functionality

we are on cognos BI 10.2.1 FP4 , DBA team is working to upgrade Oracle platform and move all the databases from 11g to Oracle 12c. we want to use service name in JDBC connection string but it 's not allowing to use service name , it looks like it ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos to Infosphere Data Lineage - Pre-set our own default filter, flow relationships btw assets, and hide properties window

Our organization uses Cognos Reports and Infosphere for ETL and lineage. Our over 2000 business users need to know where their data is coming from, they don't care about the details of how it got there, jobs, views etc.. They only care to know the...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

LDAP Object Filter in Cognos Connection / Administration

We have a very flat LDAP structure, with 500.000 Users in one OU. Everytime I want to add/ remove users in Cognos Connections / Administration, all 500.000 Users were parsed which leads to timeouts or extremly long waiting periods. We need the pos...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration