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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


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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 Analytics

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Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Filtering on navigation paths hierarchy

Request the ability to be able to filter a visualization based on a hierarchy or navigation path similar to Watson Analytics. For example, with a navigation path defined as year, month and the ability to filter​ based on it, it is easy to filter o...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability for user to hide date of content folders, dashboards, powerplay reports

I would like to have the ability to hide the date below the name of folders, dashboards, reports, etc. in the navigation bar.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

cognos analytics cube designer issue case # TS001585275

Hi, Cognos analytics cube designer not supporting aggregate function like max,min.We are trying to use the min,max function in cube designer but the options are not available to use. Thanks, Sakti
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Format / customize "Insert Filter Text" in reporting

The "Insert Filter Text" function does not allow any formatting. For example, the year (integer) will be formatted as "2.019". It would be interesting to be able to change some display options.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delay in logging of CM-REQ-2xxx messages in cogserver.log file

The cogserver.log file take long time to get updated with CM-REQ-2299 and CM-REQ-2300 messages, when export/import operations are performed through trigger.sh utility
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sending SMS Message to users mobile from Cognos BI

Hi Team: We would like to send a text message to users mobile devises (mobile recipients) to tell the user that a report is available or not whenever job fails. Currently there isn't a way to send a text message to the mobile recipient in existing...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Audit tables - Customer would like to see report names when running a report in Workspace Advance and Report Studio Instead

When customer opens a report that has been previously saved in Workspace Advanced and Report Studio and runs report interactively the report is audited as adHocReport
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[Enh| Use of Web Fonts in IBM Cognos

Client would like to see IBM Cognos enhanced to be able to support the use of web fonts like those provided by Google.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Ability to dynamically sort crosstab reports in Cognos Viewer

Dynamic sorting is a pretty common feature request amongst clients. While reports can be rerun with sorting altered being able to do it on the fly can be a time saver and also adds to the ""wow factor"" in a manner similar to active report functio...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists