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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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Allow Users to Organize Query Page

When multiple queries are created for one report, it is often difficult to see which ones go together on the query page. Being able to move the queries more on the right side of the page or being able to create a line to group the queries would be...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unable to connect to IDV ( Informatica Data Vault ) as a Data Source for Reporting Purpose

We have critical data stored in Informatica Data Vault (IDV )and this data is accessed via 200+ Cognos reports across different areas in the company. In the version Cognos 10.2.2, we used the Microsoft ODBC driver ( Nucleus ) to connect to this da...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Excel Data Tables in Cognos Reports

In order to improve accessibility in Cognos Analytics, allow for the creation of Excel Data Tables using Report Studio when choosing Excel output formats. These would be tables that appear specifically as "Data Tables" in Excel. This would allow f...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable Burst Options for Data module based reports inside a job

No description provided
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Update AI/Smarts independent of platform upgrade.

A way to train/update the CA AI model with the latest smarts independent from a platform upgrade would be very useful. Our AI user base wants the newer AI enhancements, but we aren't able to continuously upgrade CA every time a new version comes o...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

Support localization of Theme

As a robust enterprise solution, IBM Cognos Analytics supports several great localization options. However, we are not able to customize the Administration > Customization > Theme based on language. It would be great if Cognos had an option ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Extend Audit logging with studio usage

It would be helpful if the use of the studio is recorded in the audit tables. Information about- which users use - which studio and - how often are important and could play a role for statistics, performance and licensing issues.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Better support for opening Analysis Studio in Chrome and Edge browsers - include the launch Analysis Studio icon in the Cognos Viewer when opening in the glass interface.

When using the Chrome and Edge browsers it is not possible to open Analysis Studio from a saved report view using the "native" glass interface. When opening the report view from the Cognos viewer opens the static HTML view of the report and the fi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New Routing Rules Screen in Internet Explorer does not work properly

The new Routing rules screen does expand well in Internet Explorer it works with FireFox which is not our standard browser the screen collapses and it's not friendly. see attached screen shots
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

IBM CA Cloud 11.1.7: Audit Package to include the items regarding the roles and/or groups an individual user is in

In the past, when we had Cognos on prem we could run SQL against the content store that would allow to see all the roles and/or groups of an individual user. Our Internal auditors need this information for compliance purpose. Per IBM Support case ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration