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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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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...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove Default Output Format In Run As And/Or Run In Background Screens

The HTML output format is particularly unsuitable for batch/background runs, which are generally intended for downloading larger data sets for users to work with the data locally. Larger data sets cause the HTML output file size to balloon, and wo...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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

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

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

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

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...
about 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.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Define Global Custom Styles for Link Widgets

We want to have a Link Widget that follows our branding for all users to use on the Dashboards. While we can define the Custom CSS and copy/paste the CSS into the field everytime, it would be easier for users to select a Global custom style for a ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Enable additional Header/ content in CSV format for report output

We are creating a report that we will export as a CSV file that will then be imported/uploaded to a 3rd party site. The 3rd party site has strict formatting requirements. For example, the first line of the CSV file is additional header with text i...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted