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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:


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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,


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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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Ability to sort on Subtotals and Totals

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

Add group excel functionnality in Cognos

Add a functionality in Cognos to be able to group rows when running a report to make them collapsible and expandable as it exists in Excel
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 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

When a direct user access has been granted on a report and the user access has been taken away on other reports/folders

During the support from IBM on the issue of Cognos permissions (IBM Support Case TS015507478), we found out that after a direct user access has been granted on a report, and the user access has been taken away on other reports/folders, this custom...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add ForgeRock / OpenAM to the OpenID providers

No Authentication Provider exists in Analytics R7/R8 for OpenID with ForgeRock or OpenAM.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Breadcrumb navigation

Please add another prompt choice for breadcrumbs so that the drill down path in the hierarchy is shown and additionally clickable. The navigation bar on the left side in Cognos Analytics uses this method to navigate the Team Content and administra...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration