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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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More control over local processing

More control over where to process which part of a report: on database or local, make visible when the report is being processed locally (after run, on development). Alternative: Locally processed report runs must be more stable and reliable: a) S...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Preserve advanced settings in case of full clean install

Preserve Manage-UI advanced settings and Dispatcher advanced settings in case of full clean install (Content Store upgrade and fixpack installation)
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Need Refresh icon on My schedules and subscriptions

In Cognos v10 the My schedules and Subscriptions has a refresh icon that is utilized by our company and business partners however, in Cognos v11 this feature has gone away
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

schedule deliverer as a property

The user that an email-based schedule is sent from should be a property on the schedule. Currently, the sender of the email is the last user that modified the schedule. This can get confusing as a system admin may add/remove recipients etc on a sc...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Warning message before session time-out.

Users do not get prompted that their session may be about to time out. Adding a warning similar to Bank websites that warn you your session is about to end. We could for example provide the user the opportunity to save work, extend the session, or...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Access to audit data

We have created a dashboard to be able to do analysis on the audit data in our Cognos Analytics on Cloud hosted environment. The issue is that the IBM CAoC provided audit database is too slow, so the widgets are never able to complete, and the das...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Format label alignment on data player on dashboard and report

have a data player with many labels / filter items that it plays through (eg. each week for a year). I want to format the labels to be angled or something like that so that they are readable.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Produce Cognos output in MS Word

Need to be able to run a report in OpenPages, and have the ability to edit it in MS Word. We currently have a report designed that pulls from fields in multiple objects, designed to replicate an Operational Risk - RCSA report we used to produce in...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos URL parameters to specify user Content and Product Locales in Cognos Analytics 11

Previous versions of Cognos were able to to specify the Content and Product locales in a URL. Please provide the same functionality with Cognos Analytics 11 so a URL can be created to specify the Content and Product locale that will be displayed w...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

COGNOS URL to customized extensions even if use Perspective=Home&factoryMode=True

How to default the COGNOS URL to customized extensions even if use Perspective=Home&factory Mode=True
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration