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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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Default text in the email body

The ability to add default text to an email body when distributing reports, similar to a signature section. Currently the same text needs to be set up for every email report and would be easier for maintenance or other messages (holidays etc) if t...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Star Schema Grouping presentation in data modules

Star Schema Grouping presentation in data modules
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DQM(Use in join path) in Datamodule

Support for DQM(Use in join path) in Datamodule for factless queries, so the correct fact will be joined
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Active Reports not aggregating percentages

The active reports do not aggregate percentages accurately when aggregating up a hierarchy. MHT file can be provided with an example.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to upload ssl certificates to Cognos through the UI

Currently we need to open a support case in order to add SSL certificates (for data source connections etc.) to the cognos keystore. We would like to have the ability to upload the keys directly into the product.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create Jobs without write permission to the report

We have a enviroment with multiple tenants. Every tenant is a complete different customer. Alle customers have the same datasource (database) and also the same basic standard reports. All the standard/basic reports are administrated trough us (Cog...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Undo autogroup from table in dashboard

When using a table on the dashboard, it is automatically grouped. I wish there was an option to turn it off
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 Content Backup/Restore

We would like the new Create and Manage Content to have the same abilities as the current Admin Console.., example being able to select a folder to backup to... PLUS, have the ability to lock down the Content Store access for Report Admin's... we ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow audit reporting to contain "re-run" statistics

If a job is scheduled to run multiple times throughout the day, and fails on one of the runs, most people go in and re-run the job. Currently, in the administration panel you can go into the details on the failed job, and check to see if the re-ru...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Add Missing Report Outout Formats to Fully Interactive Viewer

When viewing a Fully Interactive report, allow the user to run the report in Excel, Excel Data and CSV formats.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists