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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


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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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Watch new versions - not available

The capability "Watch new versions" for saved outputs is not available (as it was in C10). The new C11 function "Subscribe" is not an adequate replacement, because the user should not create an own schedule.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove IIS Rewrites from Configuration

Please remove IIS rewrite rules as part of the installation.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add configuration setting to stop saving the descriptor file when a report is saved to the file system

a configuration to avoid the creation of the XML descriptor file when creating the output file (example: My report-en-us.pdf will have a descriptor file named My report-en-us_desc.xml)
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Mapbox maps with 1 point on it zoom past that point to max zoomlevel

When a Mapbox map ends up showing only 1 Point (perhaps through active filters), the autozoom of the widget zooms to the max zoom level, a few kilometers west of the Point that should be visible. (at least in SA)
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Prevent defined files from being deleted during installation

Request for an configurable options of files and folders, that are not deleted during installation or upgrade situation.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Exporting Users with EMail ID's

Hi Team, We have a customers who require user Extraction along with email ID's every now and then. So it would be helpful if this feature is added.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Members in the data tree (hide/disable)

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos 11.1.7 and we would like to control "Members in the data tree" for Dashboards (with Package as Data Source) to have an ability to decrease the load on our server (in case we will have performance issues ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

CA11: Provide filtered icon + dialogs on list reports as in excel or calc

Provide CA11 list reports+editor with a well established filter icon in list column headers and smart filter dialogs respecting filter-option settings from FM modell use and display item.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More visibility into where reports are running

I would like to request more visibility in the "running tasks" and "past activity" areas that shows a column for which dispatcher the job is running on. Also, it would be helpful for tracking issues if when there was a failure, it showed you what ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Security/Capability on global parameters

We would like to use global parameters as a place where users and advanced users can define and reuse parameters (especially default parameters).To be able to use global parameters in this way we need to be able to separate security/capabilities o...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration