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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 for Microsoft Office 2019

Our customers want to use Cognos Analytics together with Microsoft Office to use analytic insights within office products like Excel, Word and Powerpoint. Currently (as of 22th of Oct 2019) latest version of Office 2019 is officially not supported.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Support multilingual data labels for non-directly referenced query items in DQM

When you have a multilingual Framework Manager package and re-use query items (for example with a join or query reference) in your report. The data item labels of this report will be, in contrast to CQM, not in the content-locale language (defined...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Do not save outputs for report in jobs delivered by email

Hello, when we launch a job with several report views inside and select delivery method as "Send a link to the reports by email", we have to select also "Save the reports" otherwise there is an warning message! By doing this the output will be sav...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom control on saved outputs and when scheduling reports with auto-generated prompts page

Custom control using JS code is working fine when we run report interactively, Same is not working when we schedule the report using batch process .Please let us know how this can be fixed in CA11, we have tested the functionality in 11.0.5 & ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add greek as product language for Cognos Analytics

Re-add greek as a oroduct language. Greek was dropped as a supported product language with Cognos Analytics.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics: Add ability to control amount of uploaded data at group/user level

In Cognos Analytics, we can control amount of data at the system level only (Manage > Configuration). I can see a need to grant more space to other users or groups.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Conversion from Cognos 10 to Cognos 11

Provide a tool to convert Cognos 10 Dashboard (created using Cognos Workspace) into Cognos 11 Dashboard. This will allow the editing and enhancement of Cognos 10 Dashboards using the new Cognos 11 Dashboard Studio. A functionality that does not cu...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make number of Sessions per User a configurable Value

Currently IBM Cognos Business Intelligence allows Users with correct credentials to open an unlimited amount of sessions (technically limited by resources). Administrators should be able to configure the amount/number of sessions each user can ope...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to switch between portal pages in Cognos Analytics

We have CA 11.1.7 FP2 installed on our environment and are trying to configure portal pages based on roles in Cognos, as follows: Log in with System Administrator account, go to: Manage -> People -> Accounts -> Cognos -> select rol...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Application Object Branding

Allow for branding of application objects such as lists, prompts, and other objects. Currently, the object itself (e.g. list header, background color, fonts, etc.) has limited or no customization options. When creating branded templates for report...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration