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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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Cognos Analytics

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Framework Manager to Update the Metadata Information from Database

Framework Manager does not update the Description of the Database object, when we update the object. If the database did not have the Description at the time of import, even when we manually key in the Description / Screen Tip to the Database Laye...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide fields in table when enriching a package

We don't always hide the S_Key's from our Fact and Dimension tables, because it helps with troubleshooting problems. So when we enrich a framework manager package there is now way to exclude them from being enrich. So when you open a exploration, ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option to CC and BCC for bursted reports

When bursting a report to an email address the client would like the option to also specify CC and BCC fields instead of all recipients being in the ""To"" field.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Improve documentation on subscription (vs schedule) feature

Existing documentation on the subscription feature describes how to enable subscriptions, but doesn't clearly explain how it works or how it is different from schedules. I learned the following from opening a support ticket. When asked if IBM coul...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show Run options for anonymous user when app bar is hidden

Show Run options for anonymous user when app bar is hidden
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Previous/Next Record Function

Hi I've seen other BI Tools use their own Previous Function to access Previous records. Not looking at the Running-count or running-diff Functions as those are for Metrics As of SQL 2012, MS has introduced Lag and Lead Functions in SQL
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable datatype information when converting Query Studio reports

When using the "Convert to report" option to convert Query Studio reports to Report Studio/editor, data items do not contain the XML tags required for several reporting options to function properly, namely filtering and inserting a calculation wit...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Show changes to Manage -> Configuration -> System -> Advanced Settings -> Custom Settings

Changes which have been made to Manage -> Configuration -> System ->Advanced Settings -> Custom Settings by an Admin should be shown. Right now there is no way to find out which custom changes have been made. An APAR (https://www.ibm.c...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

REST API: Datasources

/api/v1/datasources currently returns only the items shown in the main (Glass? Carbon?) UI under Manage | Data Server Connections. This is a relatively new feature. Most of my data sources are in Administration Console... | Configuration | Data So...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Ability to apply 'stoplight' coloring for heat maps and tree maps in Cognos Analytics

We would like the ability to apply 'stop-light' coloring for heat maps and tree maps in Cognos Analytics dashboards.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration