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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,


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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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View specified version history directly from the job for each report

When a scheduled job has not run, it’s too complicated to view the reason behind it. First you have to find out the location of the report (report path is not visible in the job). Next step is to go to the report properties and choose for “view ve...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Open Powerplay reports into Analysis Studio is deprecated between versions 11.1.1 to 11.1.5

Cognos 11.1.1 had the feature where it was opening any powerplay reports into Analysis studio which is not available in Cognos 11.1.5
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to open more than one job simultaneously

A huge benefit of Cognos Analytics is the ability to open more than one report simultaneously. This isn't working for jobs, so it's difficult when you want compare jobs to each other.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Failover Support to LDAP Provider

Customer wants to be able to add a second or third LDAP Server to an LDAP authentication source in IBM Cognos Configuration so an LDAP failure can be handled directly from Cognos.This requires in turn that the LDAP Provider receives Load Balancing...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

You can only jump from an executed WorkspaceAdvanced report into Report Studio

If a report designed in WSA is executed it should show the Workspace Advanced Icon in the menu in the upper right corner instead the Report Studio Icon and should jump to the WSA-Studio. Not every WSA consumer has the rights and the ability to wor...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Specify retention period to External Repository

With Filenet as external repository, Cognos Administrator doesn't seem to have any control over Retention period. Need a feature on Cognos to let the external repository know about the retention requirement at each report level.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to control the number of XQE log files in logs/XQE folder

Currently there appears to be no other way to control the number of log files to kept in logs/XQE folder, other than manually cleaning them up. Client would like to have a feature similar to cogserver.log files to allow only specific number of fil...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Directory Security

Under 'Team Content' There are various modules that should be limited to certain groups of people within the organization. Following the directions for version 11.1.5 of Cognos Analytics release ; using specific role to limit folders is a great fe...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Save to Cloud Option not available in Portal Pages in C11.1.5

When I navigate from Team Content to the respective report folder , i see the option "Save to Cloud " when i do a right click > Run in the background > Advanced > Delivery. However, when i navigate through the Portal tab and click on the ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Administration > System. Add Non-peak, Peak Selections choices

When setting tuning parameters via Cognos Administration > System > Set Properties - Configuration | Settings Tab, there is a 'Category' drop down. Add the ability to look at only Non-Peak, or Peak.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration