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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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Need ability to set the custom login page as default login page using SDK or some background process not from UI manually

We have created a sample login page, welcome page and our Own theme. But we don't want to import them using the UI - Manage-customization- extensions, rather we want to do it using SDK or some process like import content deployment and make them a...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When creating a report without using a package, an error is thrown when using SQL Queries

When creating a report without using a package, an error is thrown when the SQL Queries component is used. One must add at least one package in a report in order to use the SQL item in a report. No package is needed when using SQL Queries, so leav...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules - Provide DQM Settings

In Framework models you have the ability to set DQM settings: Multi Fact Join Operator can be set to "Equal Operator". BigQuery doesn't support "Is Not Distinct From" and there are no visible options to change the behaviour of a Data Module. If yo...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A new version of InfoSphere Streams compatible with OS Linux RedHat 7.8

The 4.3.0.0 version of InfoSphere Streams is not compatible with OS Linux RedHat 8 but the end of maintenance of the OS Linux RedHAT 7.8 is december 2023. So we need a compatible version of Streams
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos for Office Add In - RefreshAllData via VBA

With RefreshAllDataAndFormat and RefreshAllData you cann refresh data in an Excel Spreadsheet via VBA. Both applie to the entire Spreadsheet. I use some Spreadsheet in which two or more reports are embedded. It would be good if you can update the ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Enable Query Studio for Chrome browser

As of today Query studio works on all browsers except on Chrome. It helps our end users who are chrome-based as of today.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Selecting a member in a hierarchy on a filter in a dashboard should select all members rolling up to it

I have a dashboard created on a planning analytics (TM1) data source. I add a hierarchy from a dimension in the data source to the filter pane. This is a 3-level hierarchy. I open the levels below the top level (i.e., Level1 based upon planning an...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Split Labels and (Surrogate) keys in Data Modules

In Framework Manager it is currently possible to split Labels and Keys. Meaning, an end user will see the label of a field (eg. The Netherlands) and in the backend, Cognos will filter on the attached key (eg. 12345). The advantage of this is that,...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sending burst reports from a generic email

The Registrar's office wanted to use the burst option available for sending out reports to their users. But whenever that function was activated the email delivery had the report author's email as the sender, while it is supposed to be from the re...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Formatting Calculated members in dynamic cubes

Dynamic cube allows to create calculated members. However , there is no way to format the calculation at model level. For example, end users generally want to see % sign for percent calculations in the report output. Having the ability to format c...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration