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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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How to retain report properties after copy and paste

When Copying or cut paste a report from one folder to another folder is overwrites the existing report properties. Such as it removing the preset prompt values, report output type, etc... We want to retain the existing report properties when a use...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Exclude Admin Accounts for Data Size Limits

We have a host of critical object data sets and file uploads along with some user adhoc data files and sets but we own and schedule the critical files with an Admin account however have bumped up against the Size Limit of Stored Data Per User and ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Default setting for Use Set Aggregate

By default when create Totals in the cross-tab, the value of the Use Set Aggregate property is set to true. Need to have an ability to set default value to false.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Increase the default height of the description field to 10-15 lines

The description field is an attribute from reports, folders, ... which is displayed in the properties of the object in the Cognos portal. It has a relatively small height and only 2.5 lines can be shown at once. The field height cannot be increase...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Functionality already exists

Cognos Connection: enable double-click on elipses from Search results to open or go to the objects parent location

when searching for objects, the results list has '/../' that when hovered over, displays the path for the object.Add ability to double click on the '/../' that opens or takes me to the objects parent location.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to control Cognos for MS Office access via admin security

Ability to control if a user can use Cognos for Office plugin can be used.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to customize default selection color in Active reports

Color customization for the container select and mouse hovering needs to be incorporated into report studio.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Cube Designer ability to re-order relative time members

ability to re-order members in a dimension's hierarchy relative time
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Virtualization support for Cognos Business Intelligence clients

Customer requires Cognos Office Connection (COC) to support Virtualization. Customer needs to install Excel & COC in server virtualization. Then users are able to use COC through application virtualization over server VM. The other client prod...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable or disable cache setting globally

Currently we can enable or disable the cache setting at individual report/dashboard/Data Module level. Sometimes this cache setting helps in improving performance and some time disabling it helps the performance improvement. If such setting is ava...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration