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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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Optionally providing a larger search results area

An optionally larger search area is required for customers with larger Content Stores. This can be provide on a global level.The search area can be expanded either within the existing window or in a new browser tab. This would solve the current li...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extract Dynamic Cube Model

Provide the ability to extract a dynamic cube model from the Cognos content store, similar to the methods used to extract a framework manager model.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module, Data Item Nameing please remove the additional '_' in the naming standard

By default when creating a data module, Data Items have a underscore replaces a space between words. There are some instances where an underscore will be added after a data item name when there are no spaces. 'Number_' or 'Count_'. The reason I a...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

open and use attribute (expand) content for datamodules in report creation, same as functionality in dashboards

We want to use the datamodules "members" in report creation directly. Same as the usage in dashboard. We can expand for example a attribute "country" to show up the distinct categories like "germany", "france" etc. for selection and filtering. Th...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

New packages button, would significantly improve our users experience

We have a packages folder containing all our packages that our users use. To get to it when creating a new report/dashboard, they have to scroll down all the team folders that we have which is slow and frustrating.It would make perfect sense in th...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capability to Cancel a Page Preview query in progress

When working in report studio, in the upper right, the author has a choice of working in three different page modes: page design, page preview and page structure. When in page preview mode, sometimes after making an edit, the query can take a long...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Include default font with slashed zero

We had a customer ask us to add a custom font because all of the included options did not offer a slashed zero. I was able to add the custom font, but we were surprised that of all the Cognos included options, none of them included a font that off...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Copy&Paste of reporting elements: Possibility to select whether references should be copied as well or not

When copying elements (lists, cross tabs, queries) all references will be copied as well and when a query exists already a new one is inserted with a number added (1, 2, 3). This is not always suitable, and the user should have the possibility to ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

OIDC certificate cache removed

After a certificate was updated on the ADFS server, Cognos Analytics had to be restarted before it would accept the certificate because certificate authority certs last so long that is no need to update the intermediate and root certificates in th...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Examples - styling the Search & Select prompt object

We are using the out-of-the-box Search & Select prompt in our application. It takes up a lot of space on the page. We are looking for the "art of the possible" and some examples of how the prompt object can be modified to behave differently, a...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration