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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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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

Option to sort 'my parameters'

Add custom sort option for global parameters under the 'My parameters' section in the application bar. We want to expose specific parameters to users using this functionality but it is not possible to control the order of this parameters (how they...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Maintain portal characteristics for embedded report when drilling through

When you embed a report in a third party portal it is expected the experience will remain the same. Drilling through should not expose the appbar and navbar nor should it show any other Cognos portal objects.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Maintain the 'Sent From' user when a schedule is changed

When adding recipients to a distribution the original scheduler is updated to whoever updated the distribution.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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

Licenses tab: Being able to track Licenses without the users logging in

Hi As per the IBM Support, the Licenses tab can only count the users that Logged in at least once but not the users that have been assigned roles but have yet to Login
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Align Prompt Items horizontally

It would be great if there is a possibility for the Checkbox Prompt or Radio Button Prompt to align the dataitems horizontally and not just vertically per default. Sometimes it would be helpful to change the alignment to save space on the report p...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Automated process to update global parameters

Global parameters are very useful for different scenarios especially for giving users the right time frame (e.g. last invoice date, last year to consider etc.). Currently there is no option to update global parameters in an automated way. Idea: De...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Customizable Hover Text Color on Navigation Bar

Starting in 11.1.6 the text on the navigation bar changes to blue on hover. This creates a problem with customization because the text could become barely visible in certain situations
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration