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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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REST API: Datasources

/api/v1/datasources currently returns only the items shown in the main (Glass? Carbon?) UI under Manage | Data Server Connections. This is a relatively new feature. Most of my data sources are in Administration Console... | Configuration | Data So...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Improve Calculated Column error messages

Error messages need to be more informative. This is especially true for a product that touts Augmented Intelligence. For example: I used Create Calculation and called the function but I passed a parameter that was not a date type (my bad) The mess...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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

Uncheck boxes when creating a new view from data module

If you want to create a view from an existing package or cube within the data module, all data is first retrieved and the checkboxes are ticked. This takes a long time with large packages. It would be better if these checkboxes are turned off by d...
almost 4 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

Disable tenant users see activities related with public content

In admin console, view activities, currently tenant users will be able to see all activities related with public content even tenant users have only execute/traverse capability. The schedule/activities view should be filtered by tenant ID.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Access to saved versions in Schedules

Something that I find unfavorable at least is the ability to access stored versions of schedules based on jobs, or the ability to see which items have been executed or have caused an error.This applies both to my schedules and subsciptions and dir...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use JPG pictures from database in Report Studio Reports

We have to print pictures in Report Studio Reports. The only data source for the Image Control in Report Studio is a URL SOURCE. We have many JPEG pictures stored in a database and want use these pictures in Report Studio reports. Please add to th...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future 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

Cognos 11 Dynamic Cube Administration Security Seperation

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