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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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Share and embed option for Poweplay reports and cubes

We have large base of powerplay users who access powerplay reports/cubes from Microsoft SharePoint site. In Cognos 10, we had a feature which helps us to provide links to the powerplay reports. But this functionality is missing in Cognos Analytics...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Dynamic Cube Designer option to apply a "case insensitive" interpretation of meta-data

Provide Dynamic Cube (DC) Designer option to apply a "case insensitive" interpretation of data source meta-data. This setting would allow the same DC model to reference a TEST and PROD version of a data source in which different case characters we...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow URLs to be created on the Public Folders tab (not within a folder)

We would like to add a URL object to the Public Folders tab, but Cognos "Only Packages and Folders can be created under the root "Public Folders" directory." per this Technote: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21688742
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create a way to secured access to images for multi-tenant customers.

We have many Educational customers with multiple districts. They want to be able to secure images per district, currently this is not possible. Districts should not be able to access other districts images, which include student photos and signatu...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Notebook-based dashboards

Dynamic dashboards are an interesting idea, but they require you to save the data to a data source and then recreate it with Cognos tools. Since the visuals were likely already done in the notebook, this is making a user go through additional, pos...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Archive Location automatic reconnect after network disconnection

Jobs scheduled in Cognos Analytics began failing when using an Archive Location. An error indicating that the archive location file system root could not be found. The root cause was due to a network connection issue and as a result Cognos Analyti...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

option to sort Waterfall by greatest change value

Using the Waterfall visualization, there is not a good way to sort the sub-categories. More specifically, if you are using a "Change" Waterfall which calculates variances, you must recalculate the variance manually if you wish to sort the sub-cate...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Users from sharing Credentials to run reports/jobs

In IBM Congos connection going to "My Area Options" > "My Preferences" > "Personal" tab users can add other users to share thier credentials to run activities. This can't be controlled from capabilities or by customizing xml files.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos BI - Assigning portal pages to Cognos Groups and Roles from within Cognos Administration without SDK

We need to assign IBM Cognos BI 10.2.2 Portal pages to Cognos Groups and/or Roles from within Cognos Connection (Cognos Administration) - not only to single users - without SDK!
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Right-click/context menu missing items it used to have

When selecting multiple objects, the right click menu doesn't have all the items it used to, so a lot of group actions are impossible.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration