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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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Data Module data type

We have a table with among other fields are boolean data types, these are used for certain calculations and filters, the point is that in Data Module these fields appear as not supported, also the table is accesed by the ERP and its structura can'...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module - Alert feature

A feature that alerts when you want to modify a data module that is opened in edit mode by someone else (Like in Excel)
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Donut Charts to run in PDF format

Most of our reporting for business users are in PDF format, since that is the preferred version for them. We have a new report request, where we are looking to add a semi-donut chart to the report for our Key Metric, but unfortunately Donut charts...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Planned for future release

SSAS 2017 Support

When will Microsoft SSAS 2017 be a supported data source?
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to Hide user Interface elements from App bar using URL commands

we want the feature such that we can hide the specified user interface elements from Cognos app bar by passing commands in the URL. I tried using the steps provided in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_10.2.1/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

missing input validation

Malicious input of attacker can be restricted.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

User should be able to login into Cognos application only one browser at a time and one desktop at a time. Should not be able to login Cognos application simultaneously in 2 or more desktops.

Security can be tightened, and user multiple sessions can be restricted.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Make custom session parameters available for extensions

We use a custom java authentication provider with custom session parameters, for example a custom session id of the logged in user or the customers company name. This works fine in Framework Manager and Report Authoring but not with extensions bec...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Find more drill-through links dialog cannot be resized

To preview passed values for Drill Through the corresponding dialog is opened:- right click on drill through element- select Related links- open Find more drill-through linksIn the Related links dialog expand Advanced. Here you see the details for...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

In dashboard, create prompts in mono selection

When you create a prompt in Dashboard (for all tag, or for one tag), your prompt is always with many selections.I woukd like to have the capability to have mono selection.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration