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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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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

Add JSON as new report output format

Besides HTML, Excel, Excel data, CSV, PDF and XML there should be another output format for reporting: JSON
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Tabbed report does not support page breaks by section

When I create a sectioned report and set page breaks by section on a tabbed report the run report fails. The indication is that a tabbed report does not support page breaks by group. Since portals were taken away we are using tabbed reports to sup...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Query Service and Content Administration Task Status Notifications

As an administrator, I would like the ability to be notified via e-mail of the completion status for scheduled query service and content administration tasks. Scenario #1: Dynamic Cubes member/data cache refreshes are performed by a scheduled quer...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Clicking on Save button in reports throws error for users without save permission on report folder

Cognos throws error when user clicks on save button after interacting with report. User doesn't have access to save report in the same folder. Cognos should throw a warning message rather than error.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom URLs for Cognos Analytics cannot be created for Excel files published by Cognos for Microsoft Office

Cognos for Microsoft Office can be used to publish Excel files to Cognos Analytics. The published files are not reports and the custom URLs currently cannot handle access to the published files. The files also do not have share/embed functionality
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add box to Dashboard texts

Add surround marker and column value labels with boxes - Screenshot Add Report like Font and colors in Axis Labels in Column Chart You have added that in KPI widget in 11.2.0 but not in others Problem - QBRs are going to Power BI
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Filter hierachy in dashboard global filter

To be able to filter similar like powerplay where you hover the mouse over a member and see its children. Then be able select and filter the dashboard/report like this.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New Cognos Role (License) which restricts Business Authors to a limited features in REPORTS Module

System: Cognos Analytics REPORTS moduleActor: Restrictions to specific features of REPORTS Module to Business Authors. With migration of Cognos 10.x to Cognos 11.x, a big leap is seen in the moving away from Workspace Advanced, which for many Busi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance job step details

In Cognos 10.2.2, when in the "Edit Job" screen, when you clicked on Modify sequence, it showed the folder path of the items. The job step details were so much better before Cognos Clinical Analytics 11.x. The information is available if you hover...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration