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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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No Run Later when running a job as is previous versions

See Case (TS000143599) DescriptionMorning, In 10.1.1 our users to run a job and have an option to run Later as a one off selection. In Analytics they seem to be able to Run now or to schedule (which they don't want to do). Have we lost the option ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

scheduling administrative tasks

Possibility to e.g. schedule restart of dispathers. schedule refresh report server connections
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Support of Temporary AWS credentials for S3 Cloud Storage

In order to retrieve the access key and secret required for configuring report output delivery to Amazon S3 a user with IAM role is required. Internal security is pushing back on issuing a user with that role. Not sure what the alternatives are, b...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add option as system administrator to reset the user default home to default one (set globally)

We would like to have option as system administrator to see the user home page and being able to reset it to default. Default in our case is home page set on global level by administrator via manage > customization > views > home page (or...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display Last Modified By: on Properties Page

Customer requesting to see 'Last Modified By:' on the Properties page for reports and packages.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possible to empty datamodul cache using macro against database table

Cache is great for performance, but this need to manage if souces are updated during the day. In dynamic cube we are able refresh based on schedule or ETL with use of DCADMIN. Today is it possible to set expiry time with use of Macro in datamodul....
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add custom sub-levels via extensions

We want to limit the folder access to the clients by customizing the left side navigation bar and adding custom menus. Because of the folder structure and the topics, the best would be if we could add sub-menus. However we can't use the following ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Snap to align all dashboard widgets with a single action

Dashboards can have numerous widgets of varying dimensions on a tab. It can be very time consuming for a dashboard author to make the dashboard look polished because it requires adjusting individual widgets to ensure that widgets are elegantly ali...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

capabilities option for saving to external file system.

We have jobs that save to an external file location and then automation, but had users also saving to this location who should not be allowed to. It caused errors with automation. There is no option to stop users from doing this.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

The ability to add a button to the prompt screen

The ability to add a button that allows you to save and read the state of the prompt.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration