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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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Remove 'Excel Data' from RUN options

Case ID : TS000069372We don't want to provide the Excel Data option to the end user. Through Customization we were able to hide the 'Excel Data' option from the Edit Mode. When we use Run As option, the Excel Data still exists. We are looking for ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

default path to save new report

For new reports, Cognos Analytics always default the save path to location of the latest data source used in the report. This default option is not convenient in our environment as we keep separated Data Sources and Reports in different folder str...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Auto Start Play Stories

My company has several TV monitors throughout our factory floor we use display Cognos dashboards with performance metrics. We would like to use stories to show more information across multiple slides. One pain point preventing us from implementing...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard Drilltrough - View Report as Excelsheet

Our Cognos Team is now digging into dashboards and would like to enhance the dashboards drilltrough behaviour. When doing a drilltrough from a dashboard to a report, the resulting report will always be opened and displayed as a HTML page.Although ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add OLAP as a data source for Data Module

When I create a data module and add an OLAP data source such as an MSAS cube package or a Powercube, no dimensions or measures are available to add to the data module. This is related to another PMR where the solution was to create a navigation gr...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Additional audit logging capabilities for Cognos Analytics

Customer needs to audit application changes made by administrators and/or privileged users. Our current authentication/security is Active Directory based and we need to track the changes made by users that are part of an administrator AD group. Fu...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Support for migrating reports in a multitenant environment

In a multi-tenant Cognos Analytics on Cloud environment, it is not feasible to migrate reports from one environment to another using the tools currently available. The import and export tools are only present in Cognos Administration, and copy the...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow for inclusion of custom Cognos "Hints" within Reports & Dashboards

Interactive reports and dashboards, when designed well, are mostly self-explanatory to use. However, there is often a need for just bit of user instruction. There are ways to build this in today using HTML items, javascript, links to external docu...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Joined queries do not respect Prompt Type Settings from Framework Manager when creating a Prompt page

When you create a prompt page from a list with a single query it respects the Prompt Type settings of the data item in Framework Manager e.g. Generated Prompt. However, if you join 2 queries together, and used the joined query, it does not and jus...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Enable to make the printer name drop down list or the whole property pane broader, in order to be able to distinguish the similar long names of the printers in the new CA user interface as well

Description of the issue: if the printer names are too long and similar, it is not possible to distinguish them in the new CA user interface simply and at the first look.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration