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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:


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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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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

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

Rename Auto-Generated Relative Time Members (Cube Designer)

Within Cube Designer, the ability to rename the auto-generated relative time members would be useful, for example to change the label of "Year to Date" to "Current Year To Date", or "CYTD".
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Invoke REST API from Cognos with Parameters

We are trying to build a report in Cognos that invokes a Rest API which executes the JSON Script to pull data for the report. 1. Connected the JDBC enabled Data Source connection in Cognos Admin by pointing to Rest API Successfully. 2. We are able...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future 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

How the check datasource(s) a FM Package is using?

How the check datasource(s) a FM Package is using in Cognos Connection? this fuctionality use to exist in v.10 , where we can see datasource by clicking on more properties of package. Case : TS001410982 was created for same and was suggested to su...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use of temp folder

My suggestion is that the themes and extension are not temporary and do not belong in a folder called temporary it causes confusion and difficulty when diagnosing. These should be moved to another folder outside the temp folder.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Page settings for notifications

Please add the ability for displaying a limited number of rows of notifications as set by the administrators. Further notifications can be accessed by a Next and or Back link to load the next set of messages, or to go back to the previous set. Thi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Incorporate names for data tables in PowerPlay Studio where information in a cell requires a row or column header to adequately describe the cell’s contents.

Why is it Useful? PowerPlay Studio Accessibility enhancement: Currently, there are no header and cell association for data tables created in the workspace area of PowerPlay Studio. For screen reader technology users, the reading order of a data ta...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

Incorporate title attributes for frames inside PowerPlay Studio to assist screen readers with navigation and understanding its content.

Why is it useful? PowerPlay Studio Enhancement Request: Currently, there are no title attributes for Frames generated by PowerPlay Studio interface. Incorporating accessible names will enable screen reader users to decide whether they want to navi...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration