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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",...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

dashboard conditional formatting

The new conditional formatting in dashboards are great improvement. The functionality could be improved by adding a custom calculation. Currently, you can only compare to a specific field. Would like conditional formation to work with tables also
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add slicer capability to user-defined in-memory aggrgates for Dynamic Cubes

Slicer capability exists for in-database aggregate definitions within IBM Cube Designer. The same capability for user-defined in-memory aggregates would allow for better control over fine-tuning performance.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Connecting to multiple Snowflake databases inside same Snowflake warehouse

Currently when a Snowflake datasource connection is created, it is mandatory to provide 1 warehouse and 1 database detail. But we would like to connect to multiple databases within the warehouse, in this way we can avoid creating multiple connecti...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 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 ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Uploaded files system administation parameters should be in the Content Store

These two "uploaded files" options in :Manage / Configuration / System > DataSize limit per upload of data (MB):Size limit of stored data per user (MB): are not stored in the Cognos Content Store. This is not consistent with the others administ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Provide a workaround to not use /tmp on Linux/Unix with EXEC permission

To avoid bug referenced PH08176 CANNOT UPLOAD CSV OR XLS WHEN /TMP IS MOUNTED AS NON-EXEC the /tmp directory must have EXEC permission (Linux/Unix)
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 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...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under 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.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add Confidentiality setting tag to Excel outputs

More and more clients are enabling and using the Confidentiality settings in Excel. This means that any Excel file opened in their environment, that does not have yet a Confidentiality setting (Public - Restricted - Confidential - Highly Confident...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration