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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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Scheduling With Select and Search Prompt

The Select and Search, in the Report Viewer, prompt displays differently when Interactivity turned on or off. The display is not consistent when creating schedules and selecting prompt settings. When interactivity is off(No) the legacy S&S Pro...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Cognos Analytics support R-Studio data files: *.rdata, *.rda

The people with strong skill level of R-Studio are in the clients. They use R to prepare data and display the result with charts. Now they are searching for some great BI tool to show up the analysis result, but they still can use R to prepare data.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CIS benchmark guide for Cognos Analytics

We are OEM to IBM Cognos Analytics and our internal security teams expect all product owners to submit CIS (security hardening) guidelines document. I am able to find for DB2 at https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/ibm_db2 But I can't find any for...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Dashboard drill-through from hierarchy

We still have PowerCubes and would like to reuse them with dashboards. We have confirmed with support that it's not possible to drill through from a sub-level in a hierarchy in a dashboard. Previously, when we were using Analysis Studio, we set up...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Stored procedure in datamodule

Make db stored procedure available in datamodules and visible for the users to use and tooltip.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add frameworkmanager package and datamodule as source in report authoring

Add frameworkmanager package and datamodule as source in report authoring. When you have a frameworkmanager package in Report Authoring, you not able to add a datamodule. We want this functionality to replace external datasource.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reporting: Copy from report output

When viewing report output in the interactive viewer, I can select items from the output and use the copy tool on the floating toolbar to copy one or more values to the clipboard. The copy feature is not available if I have selected a summary item...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Scriptable Reports: Page module configuration

A page module can be used to control prompting -- default values for specific prompts, required prompt combinations, etc. But there is no way to configure a page module to be specific to a report. This leads to having a separate .js file for each ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Set up "sent from" email address in task/schedule

We use tasks and schedules to send all our reports to all departments.Now because the creator of the task is also the emailaddress which is used, he/she also gets all responses to that automaticly sent reports. We would like to set up an emailaddr...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

In Portal, share a folder not using a custom perpective

When using the share option for a folder in the Portal, the link generated display the wrong perspective (?perspective=home). We created a «MyHomepage» for our company (?perspective=MyHomepage). Can we change this behavior by using the custom pe...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration