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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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Support Custom Javascript Modules in Saved HTML Output

After converting our javascript to Custom Control and Page Modules in CA 11 we observed that our javascript modules are not loaded when users view Saved HTML report outputs.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Configure system load of indexing process

We have a lot of very big Cognos environments with altogether approximatly 1 Mio. reports, report outputs, views, ... and those have to be indexed for using the content in index search. In case of system failure, failover to standby content manage...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Peak / Non-Peak periods to be defined in hh:mm

As an administrator in cognos administration add option to define peak and non/peak periods in server (services) properties not only in hours but also in minutes like hh:mm. Hours only is a basic limitation for this functionality.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User and Site driven global parameters

Ability at global, and also user level (and maybe user groups), to create parameters/variables where selections can be created. These global/session level variables could then be used in reports/dashboards to drive the content delivered in filters...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics enhancement to new GUI

Please allow users to create multiple connections to one data source via new GUI. This option is available via Administrative console however Administrative console can not be entered by end users.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Implement Settings to modify limitation of Report Output versions Globally

Need to have enhancement in Cognos so that we can setup limit on number of report output versions globally rather than for each report.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Restore IIS gateway dispatcher redundancy functionality to behave like previous cognos versions

In cognos 11 the iis gateway requires the use of url rewrites to create a reverse proxy to work. This hard codes a single dispatcher per IIS gateway. The workaround suggested by support would require a dedicated IIS instance per dispatcher and loa...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to create folders to organize queries in reporting

The query screen in Report Studio/Report Authoring can get difficult to manage and understand in complex multi-query reports. Having some organizational features, like the ability to create folders to contain related queries, would make this signi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Name of Query

Go to query navigates to a view with the query in the main window and list of queries on the left, BUT no indication as to which query
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

"Allow the server to automatically load the file" in Cognos Analytics 11.2+

Modern browsers have disabled sharing of full file path for security reasons. Cognos requires full path for this option to work but no modern browser will share full path. I ask if there are plans to change how it behaves on Cognos side to allow e...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration