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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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variable value in file name

a single column-value of a query or the value of a parameter in Report-Studio can be used as part of the output-file-name (Excel, PDF etc.), f.e. extended at the end of the file-name (like burst-function).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

BI 10.2.2 SQL Data Sources change to Other in CA 11

For Data Sources that use Microsoft SQL Server, when a BI 10.2.2 Content Store is upgraded to CA 11, the "Type" of connection is being changed from Microsoft SQL Server (in version 10.2.2) to "Other" (in version CA 11). This occurs with any Data S...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Autoretrieve general disable

We use Cognos Analytics for reporting and analysis. Currently there is a setting in Cognos called 'Automatically populate values list' that needs to be disabled every time a new report is created. We need to be able to generally disable it once an...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reporting: Resizable find window

The "Find" window in Authoring (Reporting) where one can search in the report itself cannot be resized. Especially when having long query and/or data item names and many search results this impedes the work process to find a specific result and ex...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

open and use attribute (expand) content for datamodules in report creation, same as functionality in dashboards

We want to use the datamodules "members" in report creation directly. Same as the usage in dashboard. We can expand for example a attribute "country" to show up the distinct categories like "germany", "france" etc. for selection and filtering. Th...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Auto Hiearchy for Date Fields

In Dashboards Datefields are often used for drill down functionality. In the moment you have to define manually for every date-field in a datamodule or directly in the dashboard (if you use a Framework Manager Model) a hiearchy.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Users should have the ability to see/change timezone assocation of schedules

Users should be able to explicitly define a timezone for a scheduled execution of a report, event or other Cognos object irrespective of their timezone setting under user preferences. The scheduling interface should allow you to select a timezone ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include default font with slashed zero

We had a customer ask us to add a custom font because all of the included options did not offer a slashed zero. I was able to add the custom font, but we were surprised that of all the Cognos included options, none of them included a font that off...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Cogserver.log needs to populate complete import/export log details without delay

Issue: Cogserver.log needs to populate complete import/export log details without delayDescription:We are using trigger utility to trigger the import and export deployment jobs. We noticed that i) cogserver.log is not populated the complete import...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CA Load Balancing

Load Balancing and High availability in Cognos Analytics.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration