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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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INTERACTIVE SEND BY EMAIL - If the size > defined smtp limit -> then send only the URL/LIN

launching interactively a reportselect prompt if any then choose "select a delivery option"If send by email is selected then there is no option to select only the URL not the attached report the issue is that for report whose size s above the thre...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Persistent or User-configured Width for Navigation Menu

We would like the width of the navigation menu on the left side of the portal to be either persistent or configurable by the user.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Hide "What's New" banner (home page) for group of users

We would like to show "What's New" banner for some groups of users and hide for another. It would be nice to hide the banner base on user role or group.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Change Source and Target Servers

We are unable to change the source or target server on a LifeCycle Manager project. This would be very helpful because we use one server for normal report development and another server for upgrade testing and this would allow us to use the same r...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: Allow copy/paste of Data items between Event Studio (Like report studio)

enable copy and paste data item objects.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to control package based routing options in deployment process

Assuming package based routing is set in a production environment. The routing properties will be overwritten and are unset after importing a deployment file that was created in an environment without packaged based routing. The requested function...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

stop use of LONG RAW data type in Oracle content store

For many years now Oracle has been recommending that LOB data types should be used instead of LONG. LONG RAW is used NC_JOBQUEUE.JOB. Use of LONG RAW complicates database administration, for example relocation and space management. http://docs.ora...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Visualization mouseover/drillthrough support of recursive parent child treemap (starburst, icicle, etc) internal nodes

Add support for mouseover tooltips and drillthrough functionality on internal nodes of recursive parent child treemap Cognos Visualization charts (such as starburst, icicle, etc) as is already working on the leaf nodes of same charts. Not having t...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Processes List of Cognos BI on Linux Platform

Need to have the Processes List of Cognos Business Intelligence when starting Cognos Service on Linux platform, and the detail function description of each process. Need to have the Official Documentation from IBM Cognos DEV Team.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos to Infosphere Data Lineage - Pre-set our own default filter, flow relationships btw assets, and hide properties window

Our organization uses Cognos Reports and Infosphere for ETL and lineage. Our over 2000 business users need to know where their data is coming from, they don't care about the details of how it got there, jobs, views etc.. They only care to know the...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration