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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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Default current date for date field in report and job

There is no way to default "current date" for any Date parameters, this is really necessary in both reporting and scheduled jobs.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced audit housekeeping functionality

IBM Cognos Analytics should provide housekeeping functionality for the Audited Data. For example define rolling windows in which data is captured. Truncate Data based on Custom Dates. Offload Truncated / Rolling Window Data. Provide Presets for ce...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Allow users to move columns in interactive viewer

Users have the ability to set their own groups and subtotals within the interactive viewer. If I provide a simple list report to be used in the interactive viewer and one user wants to group by Customer and another wants to group by Project Manage...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add User Name to XML File For External File Delivery

A Cognos User wants to utilize the external file delivery method in order to deliver reports to their OneDrive account. However, the accompanying XML file that is created along with the report output does not contain that user's name, and therefor...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

'Save as' default location is root instead of current location.

'Save as' default location is root instead of current location. When using the 'Save As' option in Cognos Analytics, the default location is set to the Team Content root instead of the current location where the user is currently working.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add unique user column to Cognos Audit database

The Cognos audit database only tracks a user the COGIPF_USERNAME. Having a field that is always unique and les likely to change such as an institution ID or email address would enhance audit reporting. It would also help avoid issues where users h...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set folder as home page

Unable to set a folder as the home page in Cognos 11. This functionality is something that users often use. It is useful, convenient, time-saving, while accessing folders that we frequently access.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Monitoring VPN Tunnel performance

As a Client using IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud (hosted) we would like the ability to monitor performance, stability and connectivity of our IPSec VPN tunnel. This does not appear to be possible as a client self service capability with the current...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Rollup functions in Visualizations & Active Reports

The current visualization engine limits rollup methods for chart measures to Total, Minimum, Maximum and Average. This is great for multiple filter options on additive measures; but really does not support calculated measures (i.e. Margin %, Cost ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add toolbox in Dashboard

The users wants to make the dashboard more interactive and controllable by controling the prompt Range dates and adding button with icons.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration