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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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Custom Controls to be supported in Prompt Pages

We provide Cognos to our clients and this includes standard reporting templates. Our DQM solution uses a tree prompt against a relational package. The Java takes the tree nodes and converts the syntax to work with a relational filter. Unfortunatel...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show path of selected group within Cognos Namespace

Hopefully this is already planned for a future release -- but within Cognos 11, there is a difference when looking at groups/roles within the Administration Console/Security tab vs using the Manage/Accounts. Let's include all of the functionality ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change search box color

The stark contrast from black to white can be a problem for some users. Suggest allowing ability to customize the background color of the black search box at the top menu bar (11.2.4 version).
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

System default choice for list view

When looking at team content reports on a list view, you can choose the settings/row size, with options for compact, short, and default. We want to make one the system default. We don't have the option to do so.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Personal (My Content) Data Server Connections

Allow individuals (non-admin users) to create their own data server connections, but not be able to share them or allow others to use them. That way an individual can setup connections to sources that they have access to in order to do one off rep...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Permit query concurrency in conjunction with master detail relationships

We configured concurrent query execution in development and then set up the RSVP trace to confirm it is working for some reports but not others. In particular it doesn't seem to work for a report which uses a master query for the page set with sev...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enrichment - De-enrichment of items in package

Currently, if you include something from a package for enrichment and later decide that you want it removed because it was report specific item that was include into package instead of general, there is no way to remove it from enrichment. You c...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Missing option to set globally the default portal action on objects like reports and report views

We want to be able to switch globally the default option on objects like reports and report views to "run the report" instead of "view most recent report" under object advanced properties tab.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for all High Availability Disaster Recovery features for all supported Content Store Databases

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence does currently not offer support for High Availability Disaster Recovery Features (HADR) of Databases that are used as Content Stores. Full support for all HADR Features of each supported Content Store Database Typ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow clustering of data items in queries by using dummy data items

In Cognos 10 we used to cluster query elements by using dummy data items. These dummy data items contain an empty string ('') and are named after the cluster they are separating (i.e. -----KPIs-----).In Cognos Analytics the data items are automati...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration