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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,


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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


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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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Time limit on uploaded Excel spread sheets.

We want to make uploading of Excel spread sheets for Dashboards available to our customers. We have 3,000 plus users. Cognos does not have a way to set an expiry on these uploads which might cause Content store bloat. Uploaded Excel spread sheets ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

32k limit creating Data Group in Data Module

There is a 32k limit on number of items shown when creating Data Group in IBM Cognos Analytics Data Module. The limitation also includes the ability to search items outside the first 32k. So basically, if you have a data source with more than 3200...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create a subscription mechanism for reports that could work in an airgapped environment (no access to email). Idea is to show a notification to the user in the Cognos UI itself (using the bell).

The customer is generating reports on a regular basis and is not able to use the standard email distribution for those reports because of he is having an airgapped environment.Currently, the team has been using a workaround proposed by Trevor Come...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

"Allow the server to automatically load the file" in Cognos Analytics 11.2+

Modern browsers have disabled sharing of full file path for security reasons. Cognos requires full path for this option to work but no modern browser will share full path. I ask if there are plans to change how it behaves on Cognos side to allow e...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Alternate Sort Selection in Dashboards

We need the ability to establish alternative sort criteria in Dashboards. The primary use case for this would be for sorting based on a timestamp. For example, a chart may use "YYYY-Month" as the X-axis but without the ability to perform an altern...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Auto Refresh Reports

The ability to easily set a report to automatically refresh every x seconds/ minuets /hours The actual time between refreshes should be configurable. This could be as a property of the report, and apply to all data in the report, a property of the...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Json Key Files for Google Big Query Connections have credentials in Clear Text (Not secured)

When creating Google Big Query connection in Cognos Analytics it requires to add the JSON Key file location in the connection string. The JSON key file is stored on the local Cognos dispatchers and the JSON files will have sensitive security infor...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Cognos Dashboard Embedded - Enable more sharing/export options

"IBM Cognos Dashboard Embedded" in Watson studio UI has only URL as dashboard sharing-option. Would be nice to have other export and sharing options.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Clear all selected conditions at once

In Cognos Analytics 11 at the moment, there is the way to clear the selected conditions one by one. We want you to add a function to cancel all conditions at once by the filter icon displayed in the upper right of the visualization.In Cognos Analy...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Ability to rerun failed reports/jobs/agents in batch, from IBM Cognos Administration -> Past Activities screen

Why is it useful? In a busy production cognos analytics environments, when an unplanned outage occur, it's common to see multiple report/agent/job failures. Administrators need to go to "view run history", and rerun failed requests. It is very tim...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration