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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,


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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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Data Modules Complex Join Editor

Within Data Modules - when do you decide to give the user an editor rather than a very basic user interface?For example, you can enter a calculation with a simple creator OR AN EDITOR allowing you to build complex calculations.You can create a fil...
about 11 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Colour consistency should be definable across all objects, not just within a single dashboard. And we should have attributes on members, not just data items.

Colour consistency is a great feature, ensuring that within a single dashboard all visualisations will show a member with the same colour. But what about if you have a suite of dashboards? What about if you have reports? A user would want the same...
about 18 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Barcode Font missing in cp4d cognos analytics

Cognos analytics on cp4d does not support barcode fonts. Barcode fonts are not available. This a big gap when migrating from cognos on windows platform to cognos cp4d platform, as we have reports that displays barcode for frequent/daily scanning.
4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Adding an option to paginate the API call: /api/v1/users?identifier={namespace_id}

I have a namespace that has grown to have over 81000+ users which has caused user load and removal process to run inconsistently. This is due to a timeout limit during the GET request. It would help the API efficiency to add pagination to the API ...
11 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Possibility to sort a table in a dashboard based on a column not visible in the table

purpose: we would like to sort on large transactions detailed explanation: we would like to sort a table based on absolute values, but not showing the absolute value column. We want to display the actual value column. example: actual value ,abs (v...
20 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Drill Through with a single click on datapoint in charts/visualizations in full interactive report mode

Currently if a drill through target is definied on a chart/visualization in a report which has full interactive mode ON, user always has to select the datapoint, go to toolbar/analyze/drill through targets and select a drill through target there e...
21 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

remove MSSQL deprecated datatypes from schema

Microsoft SQL Server has deprecated the data types TEXT, IMAGE or NTEXT. Is there an effort to update the audit, notification store and content store databases to use new data types such as: (varchar(max), nvarchar(max), varbinary(max) and etc.). ...
21 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Add back support for IMS JDBC driver to Cognos Analytics 12

We are a strong Z customer, and we bought IBM Cognos Analytics along with watsonx Code Assistant for Z (WCA4Z) because we need to do reporting from our IMS databases.We don't want to buy buy another Connector application at the moment because of a...
21 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics: Upgrade PDF version of generated reports

Cognos Analytics generates PDF version 1.4 by default. Customer is trying to digitally sign this PDF using a third party application and it requires PDF version to be at least 1.5 or higher. Is there any way to upgrade PDF version of reports gener...
22 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Audit user Group Management Activity

In IBM Cognos Analytics, as an administrator, I am tasked with adding and removing users from various groups based on organizational needs. However, despite having necessary admin rights , there is no visibility of this activity on Cognos Logs. Th...
27 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted