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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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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...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Prompt choice of Data Sets

In Cognos Analytics we can create a Data Source and in that Data Source define multiple connections. Then if a report is developed using that Data Source, at report runtime we will be prompted to choose which connection to use. Similar functionali...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

allow multiple return urls in OIDC namespace

Since current cognos OIDC namespace only allows 1 Return URL, we can only access cognos using the domain name specified in return URL, which is normally gateway URL. If we need to access cognos via Dispatcher URL, we need to create additional name...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Ability to delete users from Manage > Accounts > search results

Currently deleting users from BlueID namespace can be accomplished by navigating to Manage > Accounts > blueID and scrolling through the list of users to find the one to delete. Then the Directory Administrator needs to click the ellipsis be...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Multi-line Labels on Map Visualisation

Thanks for the Map Visualisation.Instead of the label for the map points being compressed into a single line, I would like to be able to produce the map labels in the form of an address, which each component of the address on a separate line, so i...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel .xlsb Output Format

Please add the Microsoft Excel .xlsb binary file output format as an export option in Excel. The current file output formats do not reduce the file size enough or strips all formatting.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Job queue visible to any Author with access to the Job/Report

At our university, each department has its own reporting team, and they are responsible for scheduling their own jobs and reports. However, Cognos only allows a developer to see the reports that they themselves scheduled -- not the entire departme...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Scheduled Job Step Report Location

When clicking on a scheduled job > properties, you get to the job steps. You can edit the prompts and schedule information here. In the classic view, you could also see the URL for the report that was being scheduled, in the new view you can no...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Anywhere search is offered

We've had issues with an unreliable indexing update process resulting in a dysfunctional search. As a result, it's made us realize many of the new features (data modules and other) have a complete dependency on the search to select objects (upload...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CONTROL THE DEFAULT DELIVERY OPTIONS WHEN RUN WITH OPTIONS > SEND REPORT VIA EMAIL.

Client would like to control which users have the ability to send emails. Example: "Run with Advanced Options" -> "Run in Background"Client only wants certain users with ability to send emails. Currently, we can hide email option in Select deli...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration