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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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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

Allow users to upload images

Customer would like to allow users to upload their own images
over 9 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

Singleton Object to Dashboard

It is difficult to create dashboard tabs that are centered around single office or employee since there is no singleton object on Dashboards. Therefore it is difficult to show office address, country, phone number in a appealing way on the dashboa...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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

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

More control over repeater in Dashboards

The repeater functionality in Dashboard visualization currently generates one graph per category but does not provide control over how many categories to display before moving to the next row/column. This functionality would be very useful in gett...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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