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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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Add schedule to More/shortcut menu

Currently (as of Rel 10), in order to create a schedule for a report, you must go to More (...), click on the properties, click on schedule, then click on (+) New. Let's add a shortcut to the more (...) menu that will take the user to the properti...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Issue in expanding of filter area in report studio

While developing report ,instead of having lot of space available ,the filters do not gets expanded. Three dots appears after some text .Screenshot attached for better explanation .
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CA 11.0.5 with Siteminder - URL contains invalid characters ('~')

we have to check the possibility to provide the Cognos Analytics 11.0.5 Installation on our Windows Environment (2 tiers - Web and APP/CM). On the Web(IIS 7.5) is Siteminder WebAgent Running. After Configuration we are trying to login and receivin...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

WEX Analytical support for FileNet Containers.

For WEX (Watson Explorer Analytical), there are a set of applications required to enable communication between WEX and FileNet. On the WEX side, we install CPE Client. On the FileNet side, we install a war file (esp8services.war) on Websphere “ES ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos analytic - Hide LDAP login page

We configured Cognos Analytic 11.0.5 to work with IIS (SSO) to login to the application. Everything is working fine and user can access the SSO link: http://[server]/ibmcognos. We require that users use the SSO link to connect. The problem is that...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Users can't see the QUEUE numbers.

Display the QUEUE number on the screen before the report is executed. This allows users to see QUEUE and know the crowded conditions.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

report view to store properties like filters, groupings, summaries set from activity menu

This would make it easier to share and communicate results/analysis from reports instead of creating a totally new report.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Upload PDF to Team content

We have latest versions of word documentation uploaded on Cognos in some folder. For example Cognos tutorials, data warehouse, data marts descriptions etc. Users have these documents immediately available. But we want users to have PDFs instead of...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Creation of the cache need to be a step of the running objects

The creation of the cache is a separate step for the objects that require a prompt to be executed, this new step use a slot of the background process. That means that all the "number" of the current and past activities are not correct, every repor...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data tables - ability to select elements in filter (not just deselect)

At the moment in an filter in a data table you can only deselect elements. It would be great, if you are able to select values as well.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release