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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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For entries in My Content, from the More button, hide the Share option

Users can't share content in their My Content location, so if they use the Share option, the recipient will receive an error when they try to use the link. It would be a better user experience if the option didn't appear at all for entries in the ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make 11.1 visualization available for active reports

Currently in CA 11.1.3 for active report you only have 11.0 visualizations available. Customer requests also 11.1 visualization to be made available for active reports.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Rename to the more (...) shortcut menu

Many find it difficult to figure out how to rename objects within the CA portal -- whether that is renaming a report, a subscription, a package or whatever. Some of us know how to rename objects but it might be helpful to add a "rename" option on ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Missing objects path/location in Activities & My Schedules and subscriptions tabs

We are missing information about the object location/path in these two tabs in the properties grid like it used to be in C10 when selection advanced options. It is for Activities tab in Manage and for My Schedules and subscription perspective. Lik...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Date Prompts should be empty as default

the date prompts have as default value the current date.The problem ist, that when the date prompt is an optional prompt, than the user must always clear the date prompt, otherwise the value (current date) whould be used as filter.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reporting: Copy from report output

When viewing report output in the interactive viewer, I can select items from the output and use the copy tool on the floating toolbar to copy one or more values to the clipboard. The copy feature is not available if I have selected a summary item...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Scriptable Reports: Page module configuration

A page module can be used to control prompting -- default values for specific prompts, required prompt combinations, etc. But there is no way to configure a page module to be specific to a report. This leads to having a separate .js file for each ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add and support JDBC / DQM functionality for Progress clients

Support for Progress OpenEdge JDBC connections for IBM Cognos Analytics to report critical information. With CA 11.0.2 Progress no longer supports Progress OpenEdge ODBC with no JDBC support for DQM dashboarding/story telling functionality for Pro...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select Own Custom Designed Mapbox Layers

Mapbox Studio allows you to design custom maps, including using your own data. You should be able to use your own Mapbox basemaps, instead of only the 10 or so basemaps provided by Cognos.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Include 'Description' in white space of object box

White space in object box should contain description of report or object. Currently it is wasted white space.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration