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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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No means to change log file directory for Cognos

Log file locations are under the profiles path. This is not acceptable for our support organization. We can change the cogserver.log, but for the remaining log files, the method to alter this directory is unknown.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Conditional Styles Not Working in Crosstab Intersection Totals

Grand totals are not being hidden in crosstabs with conditional styles, while column headers, details, and subtotals are being hidden. This is true with DQM packages - according to Cognos Support, it also happens in CQM packages with both subtotal...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Validate Reports Administratively after Model or Data Module Update

As an administrator/developer, we would like to have the ability to administratively validate/save reports after updating the source metadata model package or data module. At present, owners of reports have to be notified when a model/data module ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Roadmap support Oracle RDBMS 12c R2 (12.2)

Oracle is planning to release Oracle RBDMS 12.2 in the first half year of 2016. What is the planning/roadmap for Cognos (and from which version) to support Oracle RDBMS 12c R2 (12.2). I've already contacted Technical support. The answer/suggestion...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Advanced calculations in Data Modules

Add more advanced calculations like rolling averages to the data modules
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to add Legacy tools directly under New

Currently, Query Studio is under other applications, after selecting New, within the portal. An extension should be available to modify the "New" selections so that the legacy tools don't need to have the extra click to go through "other applicati...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Not under consideration

Chart labels being too close to the markers

Chart labels being too close to the markers Note that sometimes the labels are not only too close but too far apart as well.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Ability to Include Capability Settings in Content Export

Current there is no way to export the Capabilities (secured functions/features) configurations under the Security tab in Cognos Administration. Although it is possible to export custom groups/roles using the standard content export, it is not curr...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Graphs and visualizations, trends, automatically display zero point data

When trending data (for example sales or counts per month) with a line graph, CA omits months from the trend graph that do not have sales or counts. This does not represent the trend correctly since it is important that there were no sales or coun...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to change the Identifier of a data source in Data Modules

Each data source used in a data module gets an identifier assigned by the system. This is seen in the properties of the data source. There identifiers are used to define data items in queries when developing reports. They currently are meaningless...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration