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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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Request Cognos Features

1. We need to be able to limit the number reports a specific user can run at once. 2. We also need to limit how many of a specific report can run at once.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update "Recent Cards" on homepage to browse by pathing rather than object ID.

A report is created for a large number of users to consume all through-out the day named Report Alpha. Developers later update Report Alpha without versioning the name of the report so that all email links and links within other user interfaces st...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Multi Select Cascaded Prompt Feature on Report Output Page

To give you a background, we want multi select cascaded prompts on top of the same report output page in Cognos Viewer without the need to introduce re-prompt button (or) any other built in tool options within the product. We used Java Scripts to ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Nav Bar size after opening reports or dashboards

When ever a user opens a report or a dashboard, the icons on the Nav Bar shrink and their labels disappear. This will make it hard for users to operate the Nav Bar especially if they are new in Cognos and trying to get familiar with it. This wil...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

easy to show the SQL query and result

Currently, Cognos can show the SQL statement of the CQM model, but in the case of the DQM model, cannot show the SQL statement and just the MDX statement only. Most customers want the SQL statement. To view the SQL syntax, we must save it as a log...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Control Record Counts in Report Preview Mode

When building reports in preview mode, you cannot control the number of records returned. When a user develops a report against a large table (100K+) the time to see updates and the taxing of the database server can be extreme.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for OpenID Connect - Identity Server 4

We would like to have support for Identity Server 4 as OpenID Connect identity provider.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Scheduler blackout period

Users have the ability to create scheduled reports and subscriptions 24/7 regardless of maintenance/data refreshes/imports/exports etc. It would be beneficial to have the ability to create regularly scheduled "blackout" periods (IE: no reports sch...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PARAMETER_CACHE reinstate ability to overide the setting at the report level

Up until 10.2.2 it was possible to enable Parameter Caching at the server level - but disable for specific reports if there were issues with Parameter Caching for that specific report. With Cognos Analytics 11.X it is only possible to enable/disab...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Uploading cognos report output directly in google drive

Uploading cognos report output directly in google drive
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration