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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


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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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Need glossary and lineage functionalities for visualization in Report

At CFIA we are doing a POC for an important project that requires to utilize the glossary and lineage capabilities from InfoSphere IGC in the Cognos reports. However, it seemed that the glossary and lineage functions are only available for the tab...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos not able to connect to LDAP using Domain Name with multiple A records

Cognos Analytics 11.0.x and 11.1.x have an issue with connecting to LDAP using domain name when the domain name is configured using DNS with multiple records. We are raising this enhancement request as per the recommendation from IBM support a...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Restart on IBM WebSphere Application Server Admin Console

We cannot restart cognos application on IBM WebSphere Application Server Admin Console because of "JCAM_Crypto_JNI (Library is already loaded in another ClassLoader) Error". We want to restart cognos application on IBM WebSphere Application. So, p...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make File upload size role based so that administrators can have control over the upload limit

Currently our management wants to give file upload limit for external users and Internal users. More for Internal and less for externals - Cannot do that
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Defaults are not working on workspace even though the report studio report is working fine.

Defaulting the date prompt to a dynamic value(prior day's) using javascript in a report that has only prompts. The same report is used to filter other reports on a workspace. But, on the workspace, the last saved value shows up instead of a new va...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When saveing reports showing the shortcuts for navigation would be very helpfull

When saveing reports, shortscuts in Cognos Connection are not displayed in the "save as" dialog..It would be very usefull to have shorts cuts from deply nested public folder in personal folder for quick navigation..
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow hierarchy levels to be picked from Planning Analytics (TM1) data source when adding to axes on Cognos dashboards

Currently, only the hierarchy from a TM1 data source can be added to an axis - by default, Level 1 is chosen in a multi-level dimension. A hierarchy level cannot be picked. This hampers the exposing of a desired level within a multi-level hierarchy.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Access to selected prompt display and use values within Data Items

Need to check a selected prompt's display or use value within in a query Data Item for conditional logic
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Portal - Report Batch/Schedule alerts

Provide a column next to the report name to be populated with a batch/schedule status. Targeted to Cognos Connections Portal
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI for MS Office - Images in Conditional styles not imported

When background images are used in conditional styling (like arrow icons to denote the movement of metrics), they are not exported when the Cognos Add-in for MS Office is used to export the report to Power Point
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration