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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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Cognos Analytics Folder and Report Permissions interface is difficult to use

Cognos 11 Folder/Report permissions interface is very hard to use. Cognos 10.2.2 Folder/Report permissions interface is much better than Cognos 11. We can see all the user groups at one time when viewing permissions tab. It's also very easy and ef...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Browse Functionality for JavaScript Path for Page / CustomControl Modules

Currently there is a simple text box for indicating the path to the JavaScript files to be used for CustomControl and Page Modules. It would be great to have a browse interface similar to the one used when locating image files. This helps assure d...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CAMKeystore should be a part of Cognos functionality

Problem statement : Unable to find the encryption certificate with alias 'encryption' in the keystore, Due to this error not able to start IBM cognos services Regenerate cryptographic keys to resolve the same but currently there are no special log...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Apply Date numeric data formatting in framework model in dashboards

See case TS000115108 Improved control of numeric data formatting in dashboards A framework model with informix database and date column formatted to the format dd/MM/yyyy not being honored in dashboards. It appears like 01-01-1900 According to the...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Joined queries do not respect Prompt Type Settings from Framework Manager when creating a Prompt page

When you create a prompt page from a list with a single query it respects the Prompt Type settings of the data item in Framework Manager e.g. Generated Prompt. However, if you join 2 queries together, and used the joined query, it does not and jus...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Print preview for PDF in Chrome is not currently supported

Our customer noticed that printing drill-trough reports from the Chrome Browser no longer works.During our research we found that drill-trough reports are only supported in the Internet Explorer. An APAR with the ID PH02827 was closed with the sta...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Customized Font in Schema

Currently its possible to change Color, add Logo's and more via the customazation menu option. However change the font and size is not possible. Mine Customer has the explicit wish to change this as well to their Company standard Font and width.Pl...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Documentation for admin features

When modifying the features in the admin panel for different userids/groups, there is no way to understand what the effects are on all the areas of the different features. There are more than 1100 of them.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lists and crosstabs are imported as image objects in PowerPoint

When importing report contents into PowerPoint, lists / cross tables should also be importable as Images.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

View dynamic cube messages in audit database or get notifications on failure via mail

When dynamic cubes fail to load or are unable to refresh their member or data cache, this is not logged in the audit database. The only convenient way to view these messages is via the cube messages in the cognos administration console. This way, ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration