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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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Add output format option to drill through in dashboards

Currently there is no option to specify a target report output format in drill throughs created in Dashboards. And to make things worse, when a default output format is set on the target report (ex. to run in Excel format) this is completely ignor...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 3 Future consideration

MyCostcoPay

Easy access for employees. Seamless and individualized for security and have a cooperative user interface.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Dashboards to handle prompt macros from FM packages

Some framework models use prompt macro's in the query subjects for filtering and security purposes. These do not work properly in dashboarding. #prompt()# works in the dashboard page but if you put a data item in the filters section at the top of ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Dashboard filter bar should allow single select or multi select, optional or mandatory

The filters available in the All Tabs / This Tabs area of dashboards are multi-select only. We often have dimensions, that if a user filters on multiple values, will produce an invalid result. Some examples include currency - if you select multipl...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Add Option to Create a new job step to Action Menu of Report

Currently, we add new reports to an existing job by navigating to the job and editing it by adding a new job step. Our idea is to add an option to the Action Menu of the report which would allow us to add it it to an existing job. There is current...

Report search should only be returning items that the user has permissions to see

Search in portal enviroment does not take into account user's permissions and returns all reports matching in name.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos SMTP - OAUTH2.0

Microsoft is deprecating basic authentication mid this year for exchange communications. We will need to come up with OAUTH2.0 setup for SMTP notifications
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Add a feature in account management to see which user group a user belongs to

I can take a look at the user group to see which user belongs to that group. However, there is no way to see which user group a user belongs to. So you need to contact the user and ask them to take a look at their settings. Please add a feature in...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Deactivate Reporting toolbar

We would like to have the possibility to disable the "reporting toolbar" in the viewer when executing the report. Before the 11.2 version, we had'ent not this toolbar in html output. In 12.0 we have the possibility to personalize a role and un...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Calculated members in Dashboard

Hi, we asking for support calculated members in Dashboard component as it is support in Report
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration