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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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Filter on more than 1 query item thats not in report body of workspace

In workspace, we cannot filter on more than 1 query item if those query items are not in the report body. We do not display all the items in the body everytime, but if we donot include them in body we are unable to filter on them. We are restricte...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing definition of "Indexable Types" with impact if selected or not on results on C10 Search driven by INDEXING

Hi L3 + PM, can you please improve documentation on what it mean to select certain "Indexable Types" . It is critical to understand if you would select an indexing typ or not as we already unfortunatedly went through a quite cumbersome learning cu...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change password at first login for OID LDAP

We want end user will change password of his/her log-in when first time logged in Cognos portal.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Linking JN into a CA environment even with non-continuous protocol types.

Signal Iduna (German Insurance company) obtains their Cognos Analytics (on prem) out of an IBM Cloud Pak for Data license, which contains Cognos Analytics. In the Cloud Pak for Data 4.5.x bundle, CA 11.2.2 is the included version, which is current...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Fix Custom Calculation validation error

We recently created a Case to ask about a validation error that occurs in Cognos' "Create Calculation" editor. Those error details are summarized below, and in this linked Case: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002b4qa4AAA/on-custom-cal...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

COGNOS search results secured based on user security

When users use COGNOS search functions they are able to see folders/reports they do not have access to. They then click and get access errors and contact support because they want access or are confused why they cannot access things available in s...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW: Stacked bar chart with lines

Stacked bar chart with lines is an important visualization for plan, target, actual during the year.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dimensional Calculations.

Dimensional calculations. Like delta variations, difference of cases/KPI between two months, two years…. Current month the calculation or the measure is 10% higher than last month. Percentage of cases based on the different categories. Compare the...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to remove 'Send report to mobile service' as a Delivery option

We would like the ability to remove the delivery option 'Send report to mobile service' when running a report. We are upgrading to 11.1.5, and the 'Send report to mobile service' is not removed upon removing the user's 'Mobile' capability. Current...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Changing the sources of existing tabs in Cognos Dashboard.

When any changes are done to the packages and created a new version of it but the visualizations of the dashboard will be of old version of package.It is difficult to change the objects of all the visualizations to the new one.So,is it possible to...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists