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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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Themes should be ordered alphabetically, when creating a new report

When creating a new report, a template and a theme can be chosen. The templates are ordered alphabetically, but the themes not. The themes should be ordered alphabetically, too.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Notifications for Views

Users currently use watchlists to be notified when new report output is available. Watchlists are no longer and have been replaced with Notifications. Notifications do not work with Report Views. We did some testing in Cognos Analytics 11.0.7 and ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Information on Parse on Cognos 10/11 Cogserver.log

We are requesting on how the Cogserver.log is parsed to poll this data to our monitoring tools. Unlike the cogconfig_response.csv, there is not defined format for the cogserver.log. Automatically polling this information to our monitoring tools fo...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - add search capability to finding a data source

As is, in CA Dashboarding, users need to navigate through folder structure to find a data source add search to finding a data source. Adding search will allow user to find the source they want much quicker.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Can COGNOS encrypt CSV/Excel output files like as PDF

Encrypt the cognos output files like csv,excel or all formats
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add type of execution in activities view

Currently there is no easy way to differentiate between different kind of executions in Cognos in activities view and my schedules and subscriptions view. There are the following types of executions: page preview run from Report Authoring run ad h...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Output Format data in Audit Package

The report performance is being calculated using Audit package. The performance report will be published to the higher level of management. The report performance should be captured only for the HTML report execution. In the Audit package, there i...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Mobile: Run reports functionality in Cognos Mobile app

Currently, we are unable to run any standard reports via Cognos Mobile app. Active reports can only be downloaded/imported into app.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Add option to rename objects on copy

We would like to have back option from C10 to rename object when doing "copy or move" action.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Set up Urls

Ability to define URL in Cognos Analytics 11.0.6
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration