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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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Show members for relational data in Reporting like in 11.1.5 Dashboards

As of CA 11.1.5 members can be shown for and used with relational data in Dashboards and Data Modules. That would be a great feature in Reporting as well.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Change report package in properties without using Authoring

I would like to be able to change report package in report properties without accessing report authoring in the same way as it was possible in Cognos 10.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Resurrect the functionality for Event Studio Agent Views

We have used Event Studio Reports for years to help identify changes to data coming from our customers and suppliers. This product has been great in helping to identify product engineering changes or new customers/suppliers etc. The data from our ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future 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...
almost 8 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 ...
about 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

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

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.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pass database hints through cognos

Many databases provides hints to improve the performance of the queries. In recent observation, we saw that when cognos report is running it takes 10-15 mins where as when we run same query at database side (Vertica) with hints it gives output in ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 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