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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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Data Module shortcuts should inherit target navigation paths

Shortcuts are a new feature within a Data Module. Shortcuts should inherit all the attributes of the target object. For example, I can create a shortcut to the Product dimension. The product dimension can be included within a navigation path. Any ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release

Signed React Embedding

This is useful to streamline the process for embedding, quickly enabling organizations to share Cognos reports and dashboards in existing applications.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Manage Customizations is admin only function

We need to be able to grant developers who do visualizations and/or extensions the ability to manage and customize them. Currently the only individuals that can do this are administrators.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Users from sharing Credentials to run reports/jobs

In IBM Congos connection going to "My Area Options" > "My Preferences" > "Personal" tab users can add other users to share thier credentials to run activities. This can't be controlled from capabilities or by customizing xml files.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restore menue entry "Filter For Report"

In the 3rd Level of Package View the right click menu had an entry "Filter for Report" above "Sort for report". In newer version of cognos analytics above 11.1.2 it is gone. Support said I need to add an Idea here. What? This makes the report deve...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos BI - Assigning portal pages to Cognos Groups and Roles from within Cognos Administration without SDK

We need to assign IBM Cognos BI 10.2.2 Portal pages to Cognos Groups and/or Roles from within Cognos Connection (Cognos Administration) - not only to single users - without SDK!
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Share and embed option for Poweplay reports and cubes

We have large base of powerplay users who access powerplay reports/cubes from Microsoft SharePoint site. In Cognos 10, we had a feature which helps us to provide links to the powerplay reports. But this functionality is missing in Cognos Analytics...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Conditional Palette /Legend Charts

In Pie /Bar chart Conditional Palette applied and it’s working as expected, but somehow the legend is not able applied the same color whatever color pie slice ,and to show legend on slice other than option "All around the pie / Left and Right pie"...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Update DB2ZOS SCripts for Tables and Tablespaces to support UTS that is the DB2 Z/OS direction.

Current Cognos Analytics Configuration scripts like tablespace_db2zos.sql , needs to be updated to support UTS. This is the direction of IBM DB2 V12 and higher to use UTS tables and Tablespaces. One Table per one Tablespace. No longer use Shared t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Notebook-based dashboards

Dynamic dashboards are an interesting idea, but they require you to save the data to a data source and then recreate it with Cognos tools. Since the visuals were likely already done in the notebook, this is making a user go through additional, pos...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration