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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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Give to portal pages from C10 same settings as My folder & Public folders

Since CA 11.0.11 you can enable Portal Pages from BI 10.x https://www.ibm.com/communities/analytics/cognos-analytics-blog/portal-pages-in-cognos-analytics-r11/But "My portal pages" does not appear in perspective as "My content" and "Team content",...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics on Cloud, provide the ability to build Transformer cubes on the Cloud Servers

Customers looking to move their entire Cognos Analytics footprint to the Cloud. Currently, they must keep Transformer onPrem to build the Powercubes and then sFTP them to the Cloud. The customer I spoke to today, would rather have the builds done ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Always show properties pane

In Cognos 10 and prior, when opening a report in edit mode -- you always had the properties pane available and didn't have to do anything - it was just there. In Cognos 11, when opening a report in edit mode -- if you want to change a property (sa...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Have the navbar unfolded when displaying the reportoutput

On the standard home page the navbar is unfolded, not only the icons are shown but also the text.When the output of a report is shown, the navbar is folded. Is there a way to have the navbar unfolded when displaying the output of a report.Regards,...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Application continuity - Oracle 12c

The Oracle 12.2 version has a feature called 'Application Continuity'. Application Continuity is used to improve the user experience when handling both unplanned outages and planned maintenance. It masks outages from end users and applications by ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add Palette Colors to Widget Text Items and Objects

Add the ability to apply Palettes to Widget Shapes and Text to increase the number of colors available.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Capability to control the api key functionality

We need to create an API key so that an Administrator can restrict access to the api key functionality under the personal menu. This will allow Administrators of the system to control access to this functionality.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

View Activities & Schedules, Allow for users that do not have Scheduling capability

Company users rely on Cognos team for all scheduling, users are not allowed to schedule. However, users want to know if their report schedules are failing/succeeding, they want transparency into schedules, without the ability to modify/edit/delete...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

enable more secure algorithm when using ThirdParty CA

When using the customer's CA they want to have all certificate to be at least in sha256 but when using the following procedure we can only use sha1 https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.do...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expression for retrieving a list of PA subsets for a dimension

An expression of some sort is needed to retrieve a list of subsets for a dimension. The use case is to be able to create a dynamic report that gives users a dropdown of available subsets, allowing them to choose which one to use in their report ou...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration