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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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Restrict the number of recipients when bursting

Cognos can't restrict the number of recipients when bursting. This is currently addressed by looking at the limits imposed at the SMTP level, or informing Cognos users of this limitation. This helps for short term but if we have a new user who mak...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Get path to reports back in job definitions

In CA 11.1.7: After the removal of "Classic view" from the "job definition" interface it is no longer possible to see exactly which report is included in a job. We used to have the /../ -"icon" we could put the mouse over to get the path to the re...
over 4 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

64-bit driver for MarkLogic

We need to be able to report on data that is stored in MarkLogic and requesting IBM to enhance the platform with 64-bit driver for MarkLogic.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Filter text for query filters in the report output

Filter text for query filters in the report output
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Audit report queue and/or wait times

To get an understanding of the user experience and system performance, the report queue and/or wait times could be gathered in a daily report. IBM support in Case numberTS004090394 indicates: The only places where we can collect report metrics ext...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

dcadmin.bat unsecured credentials

Cognos BI has a command-line utility called dcadmin.bat which is used for Dynamic Cube administration tasks such as stopping and starting cubes. Normally this utility will be used as part of a Windows Batch file. The utility requires the administr...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

No pre-emptive query on COUNT DISTINCT/non-additive measures

When the user builds a query against a Dynamic Cube that involves more than 1 measure then the Query Service tends to generate a database query including every measure. This is a good thing for simple SUM aggregated measures but for COUNT DISTINCT...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Output Option

In Cognos 10.2.2 it was possible to select the option "Keep this version">"E-mail Report" in the report output.There isn't this option in CA11.Doing subscriptions is not the same thing.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customer would like to be able to set a redirect page when session times out.

Customer set a redirect for when the users logs off Cognos. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_10.2.1/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cra.10.2.1.doc/t_customize_logoff.html%23customize_logoff?lang=en When session times-out customer woul...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration