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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


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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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License report does not consider removed users

We currently have the following scenario. The standard Manage > License feature is reporting user licenses. Users removed from AD are removed from the output after running a consistency check task. So far so good.. We have users that can no lon...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Change the default width of the navigation tab

It is not possible to change the default width of the navigation bar. We can resize it manually, but the configuration is lost once logged off.+ settings of My content and Team content are independants
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Our customers want to be able to generate report output in PDF/A (archive) format.

Within Cognos the available report format options are the following: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.0?topic=cubes-report-formats Generate CSV Output Generate PDF Output Generate XLS Output Generate XML Output Within the PDF outp...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Ability to control the sequence of loading in-memory aggregates from Dynamic Query Analyzer for Dynamic Cubes

Would like the ability to control the sequence of how in-memory aggregates are loaded for Dynamic Cubes. Currently you can only pick and the sequence they are loaded is not predictable.
over 7 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...
over 5 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)
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

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

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

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

Ability for Cognos to integrate with Analytics Content Hub

We would like to have the ability for Cognos Analytics in CP4D to integrate with Analytics Content Hub. ACH has the ability to integrate with stand alone CA but not CA in CP4D. We would like to have the integration with CP4D and the Cognos Service.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted