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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:


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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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Customize message "Downloading this report in Excel format"

Thank you for contacting IBM Support The Downloading this report in Excel format message can not be changed This is set in part of the code of the program If this change is important to you then you can add this enhancement to our Ideas portal. ht...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Support Custom Javascript Modules in Saved HTML Output

After converting our javascript to Custom Control and Page Modules in CA 11 we observed that our javascript modules are not loaded when users view Saved HTML report outputs.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement Settings to modify limitation of Report Output versions Globally

Need to have enhancement in Cognos so that we can setup limit on number of report output versions globally rather than for each report.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Audit Database access in Cognos Cloud installation

Fir Customers using Cognos in IBM's Cloud environment. the Audit database can only be accessed from within the application. resulting in not being able to use the Audit extension package or use any other software directly against the Audit Databas...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Make MRU (most recently used) Refresh Time Shorter or Configurable

We have found the MRU list, most recently used, is not reliably updated if the browser is closed without explicit log off from Cognos.The sync by the system every 5 minutes does work well. It would be helpful if this sync was more often or could b...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Making Alignment of page headers of list reports same for all pages in pdf

Makes the report neat.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Cognos Groups

I hope in the future there is a out the box report that can show users in all groups. This will help with Audits.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User and Site driven global parameters

Ability at global, and also user level (and maybe user groups), to create parameters/variables where selections can be created. These global/session level variables could then be used in reports/dashboards to drive the content delivered in filters...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Module data type

We have a table with among other fields are boolean data types, these are used for certain calculations and filters, the point is that in Data Module these fields appear as not supported, also the table is accesed by the ERP and its structura can'...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

JDBC connect from Cognos to Optim

Need to connect optim from Cognos using JDBC in Linux. case raised :TS001355101
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration