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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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Auto Refresh Reports

The ability to easily set a report to automatically refresh every x seconds/ minuets /hours The actual time between refreshes should be configurable. This could be as a property of the report, and apply to all data in the report, a property of the...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Time limit on uploaded Excel spread sheets.

We want to make uploading of Excel spread sheets for Dashboards available to our customers. We have 3,000 plus users. Cognos does not have a way to set an expiry on these uploads which might cause Content store bloat. Uploaded Excel spread sheets ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable the ability to upload Custom Style Sheets(CSS) and other CSS

Enable the ability to upload Custom Style Sheets(CSS) and other CSS to match functionality in on prem version of Cognos
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Increasing report description field to handle more than 1024 characters.

In 11.1.7 version of reports, users where able to add comments in description for any amount length or atleast greater than > 1024 characters, the max we had currently is 2997 characters, But in 11.2.4 release a new parameter was added to cmmet...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Enable data formats for CSV and Excel Data

Data formats can be changed in the package and in the report itself. But this only affects the output formats HTML, Excel and PDF, but not the output formats CSV and Excel Data. Specifically, we want to change the timestamp format and increase gra...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

"Save to the file system" Feature for Cognos 11 Portal

Currently the Cognos 10 view in Cognos 11 has the "Save to the file system" capability when scheduling the report. I would to get his added in the normal Cognos 11 portal .
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to define network location for saved output

System: Cognos BIActor: User requiring enhanced functionality Cognos allows saving report output to the file system along a very narrow set of boundaries - the root can be defined in the Content Manager global confitg, and subdirectories can be ad...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard tooltips for duplicate items

Current functionality means that if a data item is on a visualisation as both a field and a tooltip it won't show in the tooltip. For example, if the Revenue data item is used for bar length and again in the visualisation tooltip, then the tooltip...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Simple, unified way to set and troubleshoot parallelized report & visualization queries for concurrent execution

Problem to solve - Clients need to be able to make query processing concurrent for their reports and individual visualizations so that their end users (who only open reports to get some information, then close them) have the opportunity to get wha...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Additional audit logging capabilities for Cognos Analytics

Customer needs to audit application changes made by administrators and/or privileged users. Our current authentication/security is Active Directory based and we need to track the changes made by users that are part of an administrator AD group. Fu...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration