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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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CSV or Excel Report Output or Report from a Schedule as Report or Dashboard Data Source

Currently there is no option of a Medium Size Datasource to develop a Report or Dashboard. Spreadsheets can be used but refreshing it in a daily frequency is a problem and not automated. Instead, a report as a datasource or a report output as a Da...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide/disable folder delete permissions without removing write permissions

Problem statement: In Cognos 11, a user with either the Professional Author or Business Author role can delete the entity folder for their company. These users have write permissions to the entity specific folder since they should be able to creat...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Dashboard Save As show Recent Saved Folder NOT Team Content root

When creating Different Version of a Dashboard, each time I want to save a New Version, I would go to Save As and see my Recent Folder which I have saved Previous VersionsYet, each Time I go to Save As, it brings me back to Team Content (root) whi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Tenant protected Audit database

We would like to give our customer that are set as different tenants in our environment capabilities to use the audit database.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Undo autogroup from table in dashboard

When using a table on the dashboard, it is automatically grouped. I wish there was an option to turn it off
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Custom SQL in Report Authoring to specific datasource

We have a couple of datasources which all are modelled in a framework manager package or a data module. So the users can only use the package or datamodule but not the datasource itself. For some datasources we don't want to model or provide a dat...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow audit reporting to contain "re-run" statistics

If a job is scheduled to run multiple times throughout the day, and fails on one of the runs, most people go in and re-run the job. Currently, in the administration panel you can go into the details on the failed job, and check to see if the re-ru...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Right-click/context menu missing items it used to have

When selecting multiple objects, the right click menu doesn't have all the items it used to, so a lot of group actions are impossible.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Server and Data Source Connection Management

To add on to: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22013646 Under the "Admin Classic UI," I see both Data Server and Data Source Connections. With a couple of hundred Analytics Users who will likely create a few Data Server Connectio...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Share and embed option for Poweplay reports and cubes

We have large base of powerplay users who access powerplay reports/cubes from Microsoft SharePoint site. In Cognos 10, we had a feature which helps us to provide links to the powerplay reports. But this functionality is missing in Cognos Analytics...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration