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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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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

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

cognos多语言支持需求

Cognos在Report Studio在开发的时候,需要使用语言变量来支持多语言的开发。导致设置的文本项目非常多,工作量巨大。是否可以使用多语言的配置文件,开发只要设置一个key,然后修改对应...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Exclude Admin Accounts for Data Size Limits

We have a host of critical object data sets and file uploads along with some user adhoc data files and sets but we own and schedule the critical files with an Admin account however have bumped up against the Size Limit of Stored Data Per User and ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

IBM report studio: Running basic satatistics over a query result, without requerying the database

I need to be able to execute statistical calculations over a query result in Cognos and there are no functions currently. We need to be able to process statistical calcuations after parameterized queries execute and result sets are created. IBM SP...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace: Add justification options to widget titles

We can add titles to widgets (slider and select value filters), but the titles are only left justified. Add ability to choose left, center, or right justification
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

content store not using bind variables causing system issues.

This is to avoid hard parsing that causes performance degradation and un-necessary shared pool usage. Please see in the attached spreadsheet, there are 230 SQL statements that are originated for the cognos content store schema. Any application not...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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

TM1 Integration into Cognos-BI

We're using TM1 since decades for planning and reporting. The integration into BI so far is not well done: Performance is very bad and also core features like subsets are not available in BI.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration