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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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Workspace doesn't show -0.

Currently when I set the format to "#,##0;-#,##0", it doesn't show -0 in the Cube view/Workspace even if I enter Negative number like -0.33. I would like it to show -0.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to consider TM1/PA SSL certificates within a Cognos Analytics installation

In an environment where Planning Analytics and Cognos Analytics is installed the most common way is CAM authentication for a single login. In order to use SSL in such an environment an additional option is requested in the installation procedure t...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Glass Portal Signout option by user to go to External system for Logoff

To have the signout action of the Glass Portal with in Cognos Analytics go to a configurable external URL for signout of IBM Cognos Analytics.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Visualization from Spreadsheet can refreshes automatically

Report as a datasource of visualization that can be run to scheduled to output to a spreadsheet/csv and the refreshed spreadsheet used as datasource. Currently manually uploaded spreadsheets are used as datasource. This can be ne time but graduall...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Required Support for Dynamic LDAP groups

Our company is implementing Dynamic LDAP groups and as per the PMR: 22069,442,000 this is yet not supported by IBM Cognos 10.2.1. Without this enhancement to support it will be a challenge to take Cognos to UAT and Production
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

log parameters and native query earlier

When my users run reports that run all day or repeatedly experience report failures, I want to be able to help them. In Cognos Administration, I enabled parameter logging by adding the custom setting RSVP.PARAMETERS.LOG = true and enabled native q...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Be able to have more than 25 Advanced Settings

We now have more than 25 Advanced Settings, but there are only 25 lines that you can enter Advanced Settings and there is not a way to have more lines. Please create an enhancement that allows more then 25 Advanced Settings. Thanks
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos DQM support for Actian Avalanche, Vector and Actian X

Up until the change from CQM to DQM was made our Database Vector was fully certified. Now we are unable to include Cognos as a Supported platform for the Dashboards that all use DQM to connect to the data sources. It is requested thatthe cogno...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

My folder limit size

It is good idea to limit my folder size for all users. Many users do not care about the size of their folders and the size of content store is greatly increased. The content store is cluttered and works slower
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Access Members from Multiple AD Forests

Cognos is unable to search members across Active Directory forests. Cognos must have a separate namespace configured in Cognos Connection for each forest. This creates overheads on Administration by maintaining multiple namespaces.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration