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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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Capture data source connection in Audit DB

Capture into audit database the connection selected when running report. It is especially useful when having data sources with multiple connections defined. Connections might correspond to different instances of data source and the users are selec...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Simplify Steps to Schedule a Report; Improve Error Handling Notices, and Prompt User if they overlooked a required value

Simplify Steps to Schedule a Report; Improve Error Handling Notices, and Prompt User if they overlooked a required value
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change Default Settings For Tools

We would like the ability to change or save the default settings in tools. Currently in a tool (ex Report Studio) if we change the settings under Options, the settings are not retained if we close the tool and reopen it again. We would like the ab...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Keeping the Color Scheme - Dashboard to Explorations

The Dashboards have a color scheme that matches the scheme of the Solution they are embedded into. If you select a visualization, and drill into it, the color scheme is lost. This is problematic if there is a specific RAG, or escalation color sche...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatic fixing of schedule parameter selections when there is change of MUN

Report schedule fails when there is a change in MUN in report parameter selection.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable use of package-based filters employing macros in data modules

There are already several RFEs submitted that request the ability to use package query subjects with prompt macros in dashboards. The purpose of this request is to extend those in two ways. 1. We would like to be able to use query subjects contain...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to define network location for saved output

System: Cognos BIActor: User requiring enhanced functionality Cognos allows saving report output to the file system along a very narrow set of boundaries - the root can be defined in the Content Manager global confitg, and subdirectories can be ad...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to copy drill through definition

In current functionality of drill through definition, author needs to repeat the drill through definitions to all the required elements even if the target report and parameters are exactly the same. Authoring interface should provide an option to ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File from Box and OneDrive

We are looking for a solution where we can allow users refresh of an Uploaded File from Box and OneDrive accounts.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

IBMCloud - Initiate Triggers following Cube Deployment and/or seeing a Flag File

since customer has no visibility on the cube deployment process, customer expects IBMCloud to handle end to end deployment and schedule/job execution process.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration