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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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Job or schedule xml editing or visibility.

My colleagues and I suggest making available in Cognos Administration the ability to edit or at least view Job or Schedule XML.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

display ordinance-designated city in Japan with map visualization

In the "map" visualization,We are currently unable to display the "designated cities" (Seirei sitei toshi) in Japan."Ordinance-designated cities" are the 20 major cities in Japan, and include major cities such as Yokohama and Sapporo.Many Japanese...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve the representation in Cognos portal

(1) For the burst versions, total count of burst versions is not displayed which makes it very difficult to understand appropriate how many report versions have been busted. As we have 9 reports that are busted on daily basis and each report burst...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Failover Support to LDAP Provider

Customer wants to be able to add a second or third LDAP Server to an LDAP authentication source in IBM Cognos Configuration so an LDAP failure can be handled directly from Cognos.This requires in turn that the LDAP Provider receives Load Balancing...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

You can only jump from an executed WorkspaceAdvanced report into Report Studio

If a report designed in WSA is executed it should show the Workspace Advanced Icon in the menu in the upper right corner instead the Report Studio Icon and should jump to the WSA-Studio. Not every WSA consumer has the rights and the ability to wor...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Specify retention period to External Repository

With Filenet as external repository, Cognos Administrator doesn't seem to have any control over Retention period. Need a feature on Cognos to let the external repository know about the retention requirement at each report level.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change fonts of the Recent viewed report

With version 11.1.5 we can't read the full name of the reports when we see the recent viewed reports, the workaround for now is to view the list. It would be great if we can change the font size.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to control the number of XQE log files in logs/XQE folder

Currently there appears to be no other way to control the number of log files to kept in logs/XQE folder, other than manually cleaning them up. Client would like to have a feature similar to cogserver.log files to allow only specific number of fil...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Administration > System. Add Non-peak, Peak Selections choices

When setting tuning parameters via Cognos Administration > System > Set Properties - Configuration | Settings Tab, there is a 'Category' drop down. Add the ability to look at only Non-Peak, or Peak.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set scrollable area height for lists in other metric units (like percentage, cm, etc.)

On some occasions we make a scrollable report for customers. In this situation the reports we make contains one or more lists with a lot of items where the customer can scroll to find his information. Because not all users have the same computer...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration