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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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Control Metric Dump for each dispatcher independently

Currently enabling the Metric Dump in Cognos Administration (DISP.MetricDumpEnabled) causes all servers to start dumping metric based on the last server entered in the value field in Cognos Administration. The metricdumpconfiguration.xml of the la...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Rich Text Source Type to be External (Markdown or HTML support)

Problem We have started creating a pre-report page that includes methodology, links to issues (we use GitLab), links to other reports, and most important highlights from the current report. When adding the details to the first page, we use the "Ri...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Screen should remain in full screen when moved from one dashboard to other using drill through

As a user if I select the full screen option , it should remain in that mode until i change it. Currently, when I select a full screen and navigate it to a different dashboard using drill through, the full screen mode will be exited and I need to ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Displaying active report output without addressbar or customise the URL in the addressbar

Hi, We got a requirement to customise the dashboard's URL and my question is once I have built the Custom URL when publishing this to External Customers, is there a way that not to show the full URL in the browser but a cut down version so the use...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Action Button with jump back function

I can jump with Action Button command from one Page to other page, even in another book. We need the possibility to know for the user, from which book/page he came, that he can jump back. That is very important to create slim and fast applications...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

timeout warning popup window (I wanted to check if there is any way we can set "Popup Window" for timeout.)

I wanted to check if there is any way we can set "Popup Window" for timeout. We have currently 60 Minutes time out set. What we want an alert window showing that the session is about to expire.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow adding email address /name and direct search

Currently adding email address / names is a very complex and confusing process for end users IT would be nice to type in a name or role and get Cognos to confirm its correct And if not allow to search without selecting folders
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need Cognos BI to have the ability to track for the changes of Event Studio Agent

Cognos should have the ability to track for the changes of Event Studio Agent. For example, the embed reports were changed, the agent execution time was changed, the email recipients were changed, etc, there should have a record generated so Cogno...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Search & Replace for Data Modules

Users will need to be able to search and replace expressions in data modules. Currently, not every ID change is automatically adapting its dependencies, causing errors in the data module. Now, we need to one by one adapt all depending expressions,...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Calculations that span dimensions - valid for crosstab, invalid results for lists

Calculations (on dimensional model) that span dimensions give valid results for crosstab, invalid results for lists. Specifically for lists when combining with filters.See TS000148887 for use-case we had.See ibm document 'calculations that span di...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration