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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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Support Custom URL for documents from Cognos for Office

In Cognos 10.2.2 it was possible to write a custom URL for documents uploaded by Cognos for Office.Here we had a search path and a default action URL.With the combination of action URL (the ID has to be replaced by the search path) we always had t...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global support for shortcuts in CA

We would like to have a global support for shortcuts in CA as in other modern BI/Analytics tools to speed up the work in CA interfaces. It would be appreaciated for dev in reporting as well as for users in interfaces on the most commont actions/bu...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

request for functional enhancement to add special characters support for trigger.bat/sh

My company requirements for passwords are the one letter needs to be capitalized, one number needs to be used and one special character needs to be used. Unfortunately using alphanumeric password for trigger.bat script would be required in current...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Provide option to create VCD files compatible with Windows or Unix, Linux paths.

Please provide option in Transformer that specifies the VDC file to be created with specific Windows or Unix\Linux paths depending on the intended target platform for the Powercube, or both in a mixed platform environment.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Logic for search results on Data Source panel in reports and dashboards

User is interested to know when user starts to input on search field on data source panel, how the appearing search result on data source panel is sorted in reports and dashboards. Is it based on some particular order or sorting format ? User woul...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Report: Pop-up window doesn't disappear automatically in Reports after user completes the text input in search field on data source panel.

Pop-up window doesn't disappear automatically in Reports after user completes the text input in search field on data source panel. User expects to see that such window will automatically disappear. User has to always click outside after completing...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatic deleting filter details in case of deleting the column in Reports

Currently the system continues to keep filter details and applies them even in case when that data element (on which a filter is applied) has been deleted from Report. Users expect to have another logic in accordance to which such filter details w...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Filter details in Reports as a separate window

Users are interested to see the details of filter on a separate window which must be visible by default while creating report (irrespective of design mode or preview mode).
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Report Template for use with Powerplay Cubes in Report Studio

With the deprecation of Powerplay Studio in Cognos Analytics on Cloud, we need a template that can be used to quickly start a user creating a report. Powerplay Studio would automatically create a pivot table with the first two dimensions in the mo...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Introduction of 2 x 2 chart with necessary quadrant labels and legend organization, in order to recreate Market Diagnostic Ch

Need CA Dashboarding to support 2x2 charts with required quadrant labels and legend
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration