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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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about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements To DB2 or IDAA or Cognos to allow Cognos queries to accessing DB2 to be offloaded to IDAA

We are currently in the process of deploying Cognos on z/OS and are using DB2 z/OS as the metadata repository and, for some applications, the targert DBMS for reporting. Some of the SQL being sent to DB2 is fairly CPU intensive and would be a good...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unable to add local ClassName with a "." (decimal/dot) ex: DIV.clsListView

Prompt control value box class border customization does not work with border around the Checkbox List View... After investigation found that it uses a different class called "clsListView" and am able to do some customization - but not with the bo...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Unable to change Active Report package from Properties

We are unable to change the package of an Active Report from outside Active Report (from the Properties of the Active report), like we could do in Cognos 10.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

AODA - Avoid using tables to format text documents in columns unless the table can be linearized

The message was generated from Dynamic Assessment Plugin which is a tool to check accessibility. The tool is recommending not to use tables to format text in columns as the table cannot be linearized which is affecting WCAG section 1.3.2. However,...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The capability for blank search for packages is lost in Cognos 11

Please refer to TS002417796 for the details: The search lost the capability for searching "Packages" in CA11.1.2: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hi Tristan, Thanks for getting back to me and taking care of this issue. As I indicated in the...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Current values for report/report view showing both display/use prompt values

Hello today in report /report views properties under current values we see the display prompt value, we would like to include also the use prompt value to be shown (or be able to switch the view in properties) so that we see the real value used in...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Améliorer l'accès aux données dimensionnelles par les visualisations.

CA visualizations are not always relevant for dimensional analysis. Adapting certain visualizations that are present in PA would facilitate the development of reports and dimensional analyzes.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

progresive chart available in dashboard

our dashboard created in report studio and workspace contains progressive charts to visualize the bridge between budget and actual. To role out self service BI the dashboard application should contain progressive charts.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

LifeCycle Manager gives 'No Prompts Required' message but the Cognos Report has a Prompt page.

Report has a prompt page. LifeCycle Manager does not read the prompts though in the application for some reason. The work around is that we need to compare the report outputs manually instead of setting them as a Project in LCM. Report details:...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect