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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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Visual aids settings are not persistent

Within report the settings for visual aids are not persistent as it was in Cognos-10. Thus we appreciate saving the settings for visual aids.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance of REST-API by factor of 3x providing latest report version per default without intermediate steps

REST-API provides access to latest report version asking the API 3x:1.) Ask for report details2.) Ask for saved report output versions3.) Ask for lastest saved Output version.Each request connects, waits, queques, receives, reads results and execu...
over 6 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.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Availability to see if someone else is editing the same content

Currently there is no prevention of parallel editing of objects by different users - availability to ‘lock’ content from editing or a mark on an object if someone else is also editing would be useful.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

The ability to set the SameSite flag to cookies

Cookies are missing some of the security flags, which indicates that the can also be sent over unencrypted network connections, accessed by different types of scripts, risk CSRF attacks and being used inappropriate by sub-domains. We discovered th...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable datatype information when converting Query Studio reports

When using the "Convert to report" option to convert Query Studio reports to Report Studio/editor, data items do not contain the XML tags required for several reporting options to function properly, namely filtering and inserting a calculation wit...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Testing, Development, Accessibility -. browser other than FireFox.

For Development, Testing, and Accessibility, I would like to request that there is another browser used possibly IE or Chrome, as Firefox in Canada is used by only 5% of the population and is actually blocked by many businesses. This makes it frus...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Report : add custom subset to the Source Panel

Custom subset are attached to a report for reuse. Customer wants to have it available in the Source Panel and avoid to retrieve it from another report
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New forecasting functionality in R4 needs additional features

If you include a target on a line, column or bar chart the forecasting is turned off. It should draw a forecast line for the target just like it does to the #. So if target is a static number the forecast line would remain static, if the target is...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

add advanced search options for namespaces when implementing data module security

When adding security based on (for example an active directory) namespace in data modules, there are no advanced search options available. In other menu's (for example when setting folder security) there are possibilities to search for a specific ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration