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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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Change status does not allow lock/unlock of a submission for multiple periods

Change status does not allow lock/unlock of multiple submissions. The only option is to lock the full actuality and period.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Customize Report Viewing Formats per Report (Excel Options)

Our company uses Cognos BI reporting for business reporting. Some of our reports contain more than 1 query. This causes the viewing option, Excel 2007 Data, to fail. Since the option to view the report in Excel 2007 Data format is available and us...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[RFE][BBVA] - Extract data from plc to Kafka

Since we are having problems while PLC is not being able to write all the tasks executed in Symphony to Oracle database, we would like to have a plc connector to send all the information to a Kafka queue (or similar). Our goal is to be able to use...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Increase the default height of the description field to 10-15 lines

The description field is an attribute from reports, folders, ... which is displayed in the properties of the object in the Cognos portal. It has a relatively small height and only 2.5 lines can be shown at once. The field height cannot be increase...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Functionality already exists

Traffic light Status Icon in circle shape

Could you please help us to get the Traffic light status icons only as circle shape for all color green, red, yellow . Currently we have traffic light status as Green icon in Circle shape, Red icon as square shape, Yellow icon as diamond shape. Pl...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Built in cube reporting engine so there is no need for TM1

Controller users are required to use external products for cube reporting
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Use a Ctrl-Click to open PAW Items in a new tab?

Is it possible to modify PAW to open the selected item in a new browser tab when the control key (on windows) is held down when the hyperlink is clicked – just like all other hyperlinks? For example, it would be great to be able to click on “Admin...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Azure SQL Server as a database option for Cognos Command Center

Currently Cognos Command Center only allows connection to SQL Server through either integrated or SQL authentication. With growing popularity of the Microsoft Azure SQL Server it will be extremely useful if such connection option can be added with...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Calibri Font

Provide the Calibri font as a core front option. Better UI Experience
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Print button for HTML & PDF output in Report when it runs

Hi IBM Support: We would like to use functionality to print a report from the viewer We wanted to put the HTML,EXCEL & PDF images in report studio so that when we select these in report outputs it should print in respected formats. when we sel...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration