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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,


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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


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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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Cognos Administration

Add the ability to customize(or at least expand) the fields viewed in Cognos Administration for Scheduled reports, Past Activities, Current Activities
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to remove the Archive tab of report versions

Customer would like to have an option to remove user/group/role access to the Archives tab in the report versions pane.PMR reference is TS001418135 - it seems the PMR ID still requires old PMR format.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Microsoft Dynamics as a data source

We have a lot of application development be done using Microsoft Dynamics, because Power BI supports Dynamics and the option sets, departments end up using Power BI and Cognos isn't consider as a reporting option even thou we also have Cognos.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Aprove or Reject comparison of Reports in LifeCycle Manager

After running a comparison of a report in LifeCycle Manger (LCM) we have seen a number of reports fail on some cosmetic differences.In the previous versions (version 10.2 or older) we were able to use a feature in LCM whereby we could Approve or R...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

OTF support in Cognos products

Cognos does not support OTF fonts while this would be required by some companies who possess only OTF fonts in their portfolio of CI
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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...
over 9 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...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard - Ability to Modify or Hide the Standard Templates

When you go to create a Dashboard you are presented with a blank template. It has no header/footer on it. As a government agency we need to have specific headers and footers for compliance reasons. You can use the Text Widget to create labels to a...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Provide method to change the default namespace search to Starts with the exact string

Please provide a method to set the namespace search in the Administration tab. Currently the default is "Contains the exact string". This can be an issue when users search a large LDAP. To prevent unnecessary long queries against the LDAP please e...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to connection to Google Analytics and Bing Analytics

Can we have ability to connect Google Analytics or Bing Analytics with Cognos, to report numbers and amounts.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration