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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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Identify the person and date the report design was updated

We have a SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) requirement to validate when a report design was modified and who it was modified by. Currently the modification date is updated each time a new report version is saved. Cognos knows when a report is in design mode a...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search option doesn't permit to search only a specific string

Our company has thousands of reports and associated event studios. We gave to each report a unique identifier like SCL16B. When using the search menu, we can no longer search for this specific string. The search uses a kind of AI that expands the ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support ElasticSearch as a Data Source

Support ElasticSearch as a Data Source
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Title property for hyperlink

When using the hyperlink control with Visual Studio there is no property for the html title attribute. Title is enables the html mouseover option. In the current version when have to use an html control or a custom control for such basic functiona...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy a report causes broken links

When copying a development version of a report to live, the report is overwritten, but all report views are broken, even though the location of the report and name remain the same.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request for Cognos Analytics Docker Image

Hi, We are planning to go for docker images for all of our internal applications. So we need CA version to be made available that can be utilized on Docker.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Include Summary Row in CSV and Excel Data exports

Normally .csv and excel data exports are used only for "data dumping" but some business users have reported a use case for exporting reports in these formats for import to Sharepoint where the Summary data cannot be aggregated, it must be provided...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filter search results on other types than reports/dashboards/data/folders like shortcuts, report views, jobs like in C10

Filter search results on other types than reports/dashboards/data/folders like shortcuts, report views, jobs like in C10
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

drill through not working in saved active reports

In Cognos 11.0.11, when you run an active report in the background and save the reportversion, the drill through links in the report do not work. They only work when the active report is run interactively. This is related to PMR ID 24579227000.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extensions: Add support for shortcuts in a folder

When you add a folder to the left navigation menu via an extension and the "extension folder" contains shortcuts to other folders, the shortcuts will not work (nothing happens when the user clicks the folder shortcut). The folder shortcut only wor...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration