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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,


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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


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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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Bring back option to change object owner

In Cognos 10, to change the owner of an object there was a link underneath the owner name in the report properties that would allow you to take ownership of a report. This option seems to have gone away and there now appears to be no way to change...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PDF output of D3 SVG diagrams

As you know, this library inserts a vector graphic element into the page. And we faced problem when making an output of the report to PDF. We expected that the default PDF output functionality is not limited for d3 visualisations. So if IBM presen...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IIS vulnerability related to Cognos required settings

IIS vulnerability: The concern regarding "Allow unlisted file name extensions" in IIS has been raised with us previously and has been reviewed by our Development team. Unfortunately our Development team have confirmed that at this time "Allow unli...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

optionally disconnect filter in filter banner from widget in dashboard window

if I set a filter in the filter banner for a tab or for all tabs, this filter is valid for all widgets in the dashboard window. It would be nice if we can, like we can disconnect widgets from each other, also disconnect a widget from a filter in t...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Adding calculated as option to Active report "Summarize in output"

Active report with COL1, COL2, COL3 where COL3 is COL2/COL1. When using default summary calculation totals er calculated correct, but when changing to summarize in output the calculation options does not include an option for "calculated" hence ma...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Folder in Dynamic Cube dimensions

When modeling Dynamic Cubes with Cognos Cube Designer, it would be very usefull to group Dimensions assigned to Cubes into Folders.As a reference, we would need the same way available in "Measure modeling", where we can group measures into "measur...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Advanced Macro funcionality (Regex)

Cognos Analytics already supports a bunch of string-editing functions which allows pruning or modifying string elements. However, the availability of regular expression editing in macros would allow an even more accurate handling of string data an...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sort on lists - Cognos viewer

Some IBM Clients, like Banco do Brasil, need a functionality that sorts the data on list/crosstab columns on Cognos Viewer when generating a Report Studio HTML Report. Nowadays, it`s possible using Active Reports and Workspace, but it is also need...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

bulk import administration settings (like roles)

when we need to add a large number of new administrative settings (like new cognos groups, new folders in shared folder, new dataconnections), this can only be done manually passing multiple windows in the wizard mode. We would like to have the po...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

option to remove the localization from Report Filenames

at the moment you have no possibility to remote the localization from a Report Filename stored in FileSystem oder sent by mail. Exsample: Report1-de-lu-BurstingParameter_Timestamp.pdfReport1-de-lu-BurstingParameter_Timestamp.xlsx It would be nice,...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration