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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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Notification that test button in "Test Connection" has been clicked and is currently testing.

In IBM Cognos administration portal, under the configuration tab, data source connections, under a data source's connection properties, connection tab, test the connection link, it would be nice if the "Test" button was disabled after clicking it ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to sort on Subtotals and Totals

Dynamic Sorting on Subtotals and Totals
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Pivot table visualization in Dashboards

In Cognos Analytics we can build navigation paths to navigate within pivot table visualization . This is powerful and convenient. However sometimes the end-user is confused because : Applied filters are not visibles enough (only visible in the sma...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

formatted ReportPath() fonction in Dashboard and Report Studio

Obtain a readable path of a Report or Dashboard, for example Public Folder > path1 > path2 > path3 etc... instead of the historic bad /content/folder[@name='path1']/folder[@name='path2']/folder[@name='path3']/folder[@name=etc...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Getting rid of "You have unsaved work" dialog box is not intuitive

It isn't intuitive that, in order to get of "You have unsaved work" dialog when editing the report, the user needs to click "Cancel" and then "Edit" button.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support SAP BW 7.52 with IBM Cognos

Our version of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence is 10.2.2.5. We are currently using version of SAP BW 7.32. My company will like to advance to version SAP BW 7.5x. However I did not find this version on your Software Product Compatibility Reports....
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Cube Measures and sql

Add the ability per cube via an advanced setting to have the mdx query engine send one sql to the databsse for all measures on the report at the same time rather and one sql for each measure. The measure threshold setting does not satisfy this whe...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Fix the interface so that entry "Run History" and "Report output versions" look like editable fields

In v11.0.8, the "Run History" and "Report output versions" on a report are greyed out and appear as though the user cannot edit the quantities (see Attachments tab for screenshot). We opened a support ticket to figure out what security setting con...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Default open in Powerplay

In Cognos 11.0.12 Powerplay "reports / cubes" are being opened as PDF and not with Powerplay.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support more than 500 columns per table in a Data Module

We have tables that have more than 500 columns. When we try to use them in a Data Module we get this error: The expression is not valid. MSR-GEN-0103 The entered SQL statement returned 3209 columns. Change your SQL statement to return up to a maxi...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted