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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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Improved administration capabilities on Uploaded files for CA11

In CA11, we can only control Path and Size of uploaded files (via configuration). More administration capabilities on uploaded files should be added in future releases of C11:-admin screen/pane to see all files at a glance (similar to schedules fo...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy Conditional Styles from one report to another

In case of developing a group of reports within one project the styles the design of data tables is supposed to be the same. And it is hardly convinient to create the same Conditional Styles in every single report when you have dozens of them. In ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Ability to upload custom code such as javascript

Within Cognos Analytics one has the ability to customize Themes, Extensions, Views & Parameters (current tabs) via Manage > Customization by uploading files to the Cognos Analytics Environment. Please add an additional tab such as Code or C...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Seamless multipackage/cross package reporting in report studio

Seamless multipackage/cross package reporting in report studio
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Organizing datasource connections in Cognos Administration

Hi, We would like to get a better overview in Cognos Administration when viewing all our 2000 datasource connections. The ability to filter on datasource connection type (PowerCube, MS SQL Server, ODBC, IBM Cognos TM1 etc.) in order to minimize th...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Under review

Ability to execute Dashboard without read permission on package

Ability to execute Dashboard without read permission on package
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Unprofessional PDF Printout of C11 Dashboard

Since the printing to PDF of a C11 dashboard is done using the browser's printing capability, the printout (pdf file) will always include a header (page number) and footer (URL address) that are not part of the dashboard but added by the browser (...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Configurable "smarts"

Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Make "Run As" option available to Shortcuts

In Cognos 10.2.2, report consumers have the ability to select the "Run As" option from shortcuts, allowing the user to select the output format and delivery option prior to executing the report. In Cognos Analytics 11.x, this option is only availa...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Write-back from a Cognos Analytics report into Planning Analytics

IBM Cognos Analytics needs to be able to write-back int TM1/Planning Analytics database. This is necessary not only to reduce the amount of tools a business user dealing with planning and actual data needs to use, but also to allow Cognos the use ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration