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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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this request is to hide Link “Select a delivery method” user-dependent (Cognos-Role-Dependent)

While a report is running a pop-up window is provided to the user. In this window a link “Select a delivery method” is shown, which should not be usable to all users.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adding option to Search for members to remove them, this feature is currently only available when users are to be added

In Cognos administration, under the security groups, there is no option to search for members to remove them. You can only search once you have select the add option. In groups with 100+ users, it is extremely difficult to find individuals to remo...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Monitor archive file location for access problems

When the archive location is not accessible by the cognos dispatcher the problem should be logged and reported to the system administrator.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

change display time for multiple objects on story mode

When using a story that contains multiple objects, changing the display times for all objects is very difficult. Not all objects align to the exact same end time therefor it may look unprofessional. My suggestion is, 1. First option is to add to ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Child prompts does not get auto selected.

child prompts are not auto selected when its respective parent is selected.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Repeater in Dashboard: Being able to control the Direction, how many Across and Down

Repeater in Dashboard is way to simplistic. Users should be able to control the Direction, how many Across and Down The moment there's more groups/categories displayed by the current Row/Columns Repeater can handle, it looses it's purpose
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to export report or story to power point

Users are demanding an export to power point so that board presentations can be pre-formatted and downloadable.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy email addresses from distribution list

Sometimes one needs to repoint a job step to another report or just send another report to the same or similar DL, so it would be quick to just copy the DL from one to another. However in the latest GUIs, the email addresses cannot be copied as te...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Show message when adding email address that is already in the list

When maintaining the email distribution list for a report, the interface doesn't accept an email address that is already in the list (which is good), neither does it give a message saying exactly that (which is not so good). As you do not know why...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Shared folder links do not work for anyone except Administrators if a custom folder is configured

Any shared folder link from Cognos Analytics ( 11.0.0 through the most recent version 11.1.1.0) will not work for anyone except System Administrators or Folder Administrators and therefore this feature is useless if shared with other Consumers/Aut...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration