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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,


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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


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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 Portal Emailing - One Email with All Report Links

Provide an option/setting where the user can set to receive a single email notification for all of their scheduled reports. Targeted for Cognos Connection Portal
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide a Tab prompt that can be used in the Prompt Page

The new Tab control provided in a newer release can only be used in the Report Page Targeted to Report Studio
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add tool top to Cognos Report Column Header

User Runs Report. Hovers ouse over Column Headings . Able to see more description or screen tip
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Transparent content manager switch

Today when a content manager switch to standby (as failover or when activating manually by admin team), the switch is not transparent towards users. The active sessions are kept but all ongoing report/report view/job exeuctions are failing. We wou...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow stored procedure conflict resolution on receive-only targets for Enterprise Replication

Currently stored procedure conflict resolution is not allowed on a receive-only participant, but when there are multiple sources and one target, even though the target is receive-only, there can be situations where more advanced logic is needed to...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Export single objects: reports, shortcuts, jobs, etc

Hi, In Cognos Analytics it would be really useful to have the possibility to export or import single objects and not only entire folders. Please try to integrate this functionality in the future versions of the product. KR, Marius
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ad hoc Reports to allow currency code selection & period interval

group user ran ad hoc reports for ad hoc request/checking of some values instead of specially create an excel linked report just for ad hoc requests. Currently values are all in YTD only and able to select either local or immediate group currency....
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

Request to not ask business users to escape reserved characters on the FTS

Business users are often missing to add the escape characters “\\” as it is confusing for them to perform this type of search. We should have a workaround on this such as say use a double quote to search for an exact match, etc.
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Request to index catalog by catalog

Our customer has more than 25 million data and it is not feasible to do a full indexing every month with multiple days of downtime. Indexing by catalog helps us big time.
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Search Attributes/Columns in Workspace Advanced

We utilize Cognos Workspace Advance for Adhoc reporting needs. Often the number of attributes or columns in the Dimensions or Query Subjects are quite high, which makes it difficult for users to lookup the right attribute/column. We would like to ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration