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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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Rerun failed jobs at once from Scheduler

We schedule multiple jobs to run on scheduler. Sometime a large number of jobs might fail because of any issue like. network, database issue. In this case user has to go run the job one by one once the issue is fixed. What we are looking here is s...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Framework Manager: Option to allow "true FULL OUTER JOIN SQL generation" using conformed dimensions

Framework Manager: Provide an option to allow true FULL OUTER JOIN SQL generation using conformed dimensions In other words: provide a way to suppress the use of stitch columns in well defined models.PMR: TS001052591
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Alter Uploaded Files

When uploading excel sheets to use, display, and manipulate for the purpose of storyboarding or dashboarding, there is no feature to change or view the attribute types once uploaded. In order to accomplish this task, you must re-upload and re-link...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Consumers being required to have read access for interactive reports has broken our security model

We allow business area authors to develop reports in the production environment. Business area consumers only run reportsBusiness area authors have Report Studio capability, Read, Execute, Traverse to the business area reporting package, and at le...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

11.1 Visualization options that are in legacy charts

11.1 visuals should have features of legacy charts. Categorical and value baselines (static and based on query calculation). Should be able to have background (region) colors in charts (static values, percentages, and layout calcs). Additional axi...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Global parameters with group permission

In Cognos Analytics the concept of global parameters was introduced. in the Administration section you can set permissions on paramters based on user roles. If a user has more roles you need to set the priority. It would be helpful if the permissi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Favourite Favorite item to navigation menu

I require a quick way to access my favourite reports, dashbards, folders. Currently I have to create shortcuts in my content, or search etc. this is clunky. On the home menu, that has Home, New, Upload Data, Recent, there should be a 'Favourites' ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Image in an excel report always adding some white space on the right side.

In report when ever image is used extra white space gets added in the cell. The excel cell should span to the size of the image only.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Disable selection and copy text in non-interactive reports

We would like that the option of selecting and coping text from non-interactive reports to be disabled. At this moment, there is no option to disable these features and users can copy details from the Cognos reports and use them outside the applic...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Drill through on Dashboards on direct click on the section of visualization

To achieve the drill through to the Destination by a single click on part of the visuals and not selecting and then going to visualization box and clicking on Drill through Icon.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration