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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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Report options like "Double-click on member action" should be a personal preference.

While authoring a report it is possible to set some options. (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cr_rptstd.doc/c_cr_rptstd_intrd_set_options.html). These options are saved in the browser cookies. The...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

All TM1 cube based reports are throwing "IBM TM1 is no longer supported in IBM Cognos Analytics error" post upgraded to 11.2.4 FP3

We have upgraded cognos from 11.1.7 FP5 to 11.2.4 FP3. Post upgrade we are getting "IBM TM1 is no longer supported in IBM Cognos Analytics" error while running the report which is created based on TM1 Cube. Datasource Connection Type : IBM Plannin...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Reports should be able to save output as data set (dataset), just like HTML, Excel, PDF, CSV etc

A report should be able to save output as a data set. Run a report to a data set should be just as simple as running a report to Excel, PDF etc. Whilst the functionality exists to create a new data set report from an existing report, this means we...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Allow clustering of data items in queries by using dummy data items

In Cognos 10 we used to cluster query elements by using dummy data items. These dummy data items contain an empty string ('') and are named after the cluster they are separating (i.e. -----KPIs-----).In Cognos Analytics the data items are automati...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Simple, unified way to set and troubleshoot parallelized report & visualization queries for concurrent execution

Problem to solve - Clients need to be able to make query processing concurrent for their reports and individual visualizations so that their end users (who only open reports to get some information, then close them) have the opportunity to get wha...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

data module – default settings for “optimization” while creating join

Current functionality: there are two ways to create a join within a data module: Option 1: mark the two tables, right click and create join, this will cause a 1:n relationship with an “Unique values” optimization. Option 2: select one table, use t...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change user preferences without logging out of Cognos

In «My Preference», users have no «Apply» button to confirm the product language and content language.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboards: not able to create calculation using data items from file uploaded and gosales sample FM package

TS001075080:CAR11: not able to create calculation using data items from file uploaded and gosales sample FM package.From IBM: I heard back from the Offering Manager this afternoon. The ability to create a calculation involving two separate sources...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

setFocus Functionality

In previous versions of Cognos, we were able to use Javascript with the DOM form.document to set screen focus to the first input field. This is a Federal requirement for all aspects of our web site. In Cognos 11, there is no form and no way to set...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement to notify me functionality; "Notify me" Include Email Notification Option (Cloud & OnPrem)

Current : when a user selects an option to notify me for the report/output, when the scheduled report gets updated. Cognos notifies the user with bell notifications updates in Home Portal. Functionality Need: In addition to the Bell notifications,...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration