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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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License - users vs viewer

Our company is reviewing our existing license allocation and currently when I go into the License section within Cognos Analytics - it shows that whenever a new user is created and logs into the environment, it is flagged as an analytics users not...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

View Activities & Schedules, Allow for users that do not have Scheduling capability

Company users rely on Cognos team for all scheduling, users are not allowed to schedule. However, users want to know if their report schedules are failing/succeeding, they want transparency into schedules, without the ability to modify/edit/delete...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Licenses report incorrect despite the execution of a consistency check

Issue: When we invite a user to PA, the user ends up in the PANS namespace. When the user is removed from PA, the user is still defined in Cognos namespace and is not removed. Expected Result: User is removed from PANS namespace and any entry in t...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Report : add custom subset to the Source Panel

Custom subset are attached to a report for reuse. Customer wants to have it available in the Source Panel and avoid to retrieve it from another report
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

add advanced search options for namespaces when implementing data module security

When adding security based on (for example an active directory) namespace in data modules, there are no advanced search options available. In other menu's (for example when setting folder security) there are possibilities to search for a specific ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Upload/Append Schedule for a file

We have users that have receive upload files everyday and we would like to be able to Update or append to file using scheduling.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow selection of a Planning Analytics subset for a Tree prompt's default

Currently, when I try to set a Tree prompt's default selection property to a subset in a Planning Analytics data source's dimension, it is not allowed. This behavior is not preferred... selection of a subset should be available.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to determine which boxes are checked by default when emailing a report

When our users use the "Run in Background" feature in Cognos Analytics to email a report that's in a public folder, they typically email the report as an attachment. Currently when the Delivery method of “Send report by email” is chosen, the "...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set report property "Run with full interactivity" to "Yes" using SDK

As shown in the on-line help, report property "Run with full interactivity" is set to "No" for upgraded reports. ---Run with full interactivitySpecifies whether to enable interactivity in the report output.When set to Yes, users will be able to ma...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capability to control the api key functionality

We need to create an API key so that an Administrator can restrict access to the api key functionality under the personal menu. This will allow Administrators of the system to control access to this functionality.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted