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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


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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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

Restrict number of parallel batch reports per User or Tenant

It should be possible to restrict the number of batch reports run in parallel by a user and/or in a multi-tenant environment per tenant. This could be general parameters for the batch report service like "Number of parallel processes per user" or ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow for burst report test sending to see the outputs that would be generated

Allow users to essentially test the outputs of a burst report without actually sending anything to the recipients. For example - see the individual excel files that would go to a given email address, but send to the person testing, not the recipie...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 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

Additional graph options for matrix graphs (repeating columns/rows)

When repeating on rows or columns there should be an option to have the axis labels appear only for the first instance. Repeating using a measure group should give us an option to have each value axis have it's own scale and formatting options. In...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Receive a warning when you delete a detail report used in master reports.

When a user deletes a report, he does not know that this report is used as a detail report in master reports, in case there are master-detail relationship defined. So, the user should have a warning to indicate that the report is a detail reports...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 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

Custom Control (Authorized Drill Through)

When creating custom controls like visualizations or data tables it is not possible to perform an out-of-the-box drill-through (authored drill through). Yes, you can use URL parameters to create a psuedo drill-through. However, this is very poor p...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Dataset as source for Dynamic Cubes

We need fast dimensional models, for dashboarding and reports etc. it is not always big data and perfect star schemas, but with datasets and uploaded files, Cognos Analytics would have a great boost for the dimensional model using them in Cube Des...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 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