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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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Job paramters settings also for Datasets

Simple scenario using datasets and scheduling it with a job or using a normal schedule. The dataset is built using parameters so when you save and load it for the first time it requires you to put parameters. If i would to refresh the dataset usin...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

For reports run interactively, display the report location.

When you run multiple reports with the same name, there is no way from the Welcome drop down to determine each report location making it impossible to differentiate between them. See file Attachments for a screenshot or view this forum post:https:...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multiple extensions on app bar based up on permission

If we assign multiple custom folders to one user role, currently the product will only one custom folder to appear and there is no way to tell which one will show.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Folder Object Count

There should be an easy way to see how many objects are in a folder.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Glossary on Dashboards

When you are running or developing a report within Cognos 11 - you have the ability to click on a data item and choose glossary and lineage. This capability only exists for Reports - it does not exist for Dashboards or Stories. It would be nice to...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Size of Cognos Generated Prompt (Select Box)

The Cognos generated prompt shows up with a very small width and the user has to use the scroll bar to see the entire value. Need this box to get the width of the maximum length of the values in the prompt.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability for users to deploy Cognos content between environments

Provide functionality that empower users to deploy Cognos Analytics content between environments (Dev, QC, UAT, Prod) without requiring access to copy deployment archive zip files between environments.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow non-https URLs in dashboard

Cant add an http URL in the dashboard only https. This prevents adding intranet URLs and also known safe http sites
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Suppress option not available for Data module reports

We noticed that suppress option is not available in the report when it is created from data module.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 Dynamic Cube Administration Security Seperation

Separate Dynamic Cube Administration capabilities from System Admin....
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration