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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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Select Value filter's background color cannot be modified in Cognos Workspace

There is no capability built into Cognos Workspace to be able to modify the Select Value filter's background color or to have it pickup the background color from the Workspace. This is true for either the check box style (check box remains white) ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Render authenticated external images in non-HTML formatted Cognos output

We run a report that embeds an HTML image sitting on a non-Cognos webserver in the same domain. When running the report in HTML output format, the image appears in the report. When running the report in PDF and Excel 2007 format however, no image ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global support for shortcuts in CA

We would like to have a global support for shortcuts in CA as in other modern BI/Analytics tools to speed up the work in CA interfaces. It would be appreaciated for dev in reporting as well as for users in interfaces on the most commont actions/bu...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

request for functional enhancement to add special characters support for trigger.bat/sh

My company requirements for passwords are the one letter needs to be capitalized, one number needs to be used and one special character needs to be used. Unfortunately using alphanumeric password for trigger.bat script would be required in current...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add a function to determine if we are in the last PDF page row or column of a list or a crosstab

Reporting: Add a function to determine if we are in the last PDF page row or column of a list or a crosstabBe able to determine with a report function if we are in the last row or/and column of a list or a crosstab of a physical PDF page in order ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

FrameWork Manager 10.2.2 - Import metadata

## English VersionWith Cognos FrameWork Manager 10.2.2, we import Teradata views in DQM mode.The response times are very long.We analyze the queries sent to Teradata. The query (in the use case) lasts longer than 4 min 30s.It uses tables systems :...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable reporting on Cognos configuration metadata

Add the ability to report/extract configuration information from the Content Store database or Cognos Administration portal.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pivotal Greenplum Median function executed locally in Cognos

Pivotal Greenplum Median function executed locally in Cognos
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Logic for search results on Data Source panel in reports and dashboards

User is interested to know when user starts to input on search field on data source panel, how the appearing search result on data source panel is sorted in reports and dashboards. Is it based on some particular order or sorting format ? User woul...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Report: Pop-up window doesn't disappear automatically in Reports after user completes the text input in search field on data source panel.

Pop-up window doesn't disappear automatically in Reports after user completes the text input in search field on data source panel. User expects to see that such window will automatically disappear. User has to always click outside after completing...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration