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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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Multi Select Cascaded Prompt Feature on Report Output Page

To give you a background, we want multi select cascaded prompts on top of the same report output page in Cognos Viewer without the need to introduce re-prompt button (or) any other built in tool options within the product. We used Java Scripts to ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Split Data Modules to two : "Data clean" & "Data Modeling" tools

Data Module contains several features and becomes a real gas factory, far from a "self service" tool for a user, even advanced. I think it would be interesting to divide it into two tools. One to integrate and clean the data and another oriented r...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Control Record Counts in Report Preview Mode

When building reports in preview mode, you cannot control the number of records returned. When a user develops a report against a large table (100K+) the time to see updates and the taxing of the database server can be extreme.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to authorize access to AD per tenant

We want to arrange that a tenant administrator (so the administrator for a specific tenant) can link users from AD to a certain Cognos-group (license). We want to achieve that the tenant administrator is only able to see and select users from its ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Openpages CJAP passing email to Cognos

OpenPages use the CJAP for login and it does not pass email address to Cognos. This is resulting User need to manually enter email address when scheduling Cognos report for email delivery.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Search text in the report from the Cognos Portal Search

We are looking for option to have wide search in the cognos portal. We are only allowed with 11.1.x search functionality was enhanced and allows for searching of objects such as table and column labels in addition to report names, folder names, pa...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Manage Customizations is admin only function

We need to be able to grant developers who do visualizations and/or extensions the ability to manage and customize them. Currently the only individuals that can do this are administrators.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restore menue entry "Filter For Report"

In the 3rd Level of Package View the right click menu had an entry "Filter for Report" above "Sort for report". In newer version of cognos analytics above 11.1.2 it is gone. Support said I need to add an Idea here. What? This makes the report deve...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search reports sent to

I would like to be able to query who reports are delivered to.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bring back "Insert" and "Collapse all" option to menu on data items

In previous versions of CA (eg. 11.0.6) we had "Insert" and "Collapse all" options when right clicking a data item in the "Query"-view. In newer releases we only have "Display data items based on selection". Would be nice to have these options bac...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration