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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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Enhanced Security Auditing and Reporting for Cognos BI CAM - SOX Compliance

Issue: not able to audit details of changes made to security in BI CAM Request: System logs and reports on detailed activities of an action. Reason: We need the detail log level in order to be compliant with our internal CN SOX compliance requirem...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Conditional Styles Not Working in Crosstab Intersection Totals

Grand totals are not being hidden in crosstabs with conditional styles, while column headers, details, and subtotals are being hidden. This is true with DQM packages - according to Cognos Support, it also happens in CQM packages with both subtotal...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Validate Reports Administratively after Model or Data Module Update

As an administrator/developer, we would like to have the ability to administratively validate/save reports after updating the source metadata model package or data module. At present, owners of reports have to be notified when a model/data module ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Login screen showing a pre-filled value for Namespace

Hi, We are on CA R5 installed in a distributed mode on Linux with dual namespaces called "ADESI" and "ES" configured. In version 10, the namespace value on the login screen is pre-populated in the alphabetical order i.e. with ADESI first and ES la...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PMR 13167,7TD,000: Refreshing only the prompts and not the whole report page

We have few pick-list cascaded prompts on the report page. Whenever user selects these prompts, and click submit, the whole report page with data gets refreshed along with the cascaded prompt values. We need only the cascaded prompt values to be r...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Separate admin console

Separate admin console
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Deliver a warning when importing a deployment with security

When importing a deployment you may not know that the import has security enabled and it will overwrite the existing security. There should be a warning stating this.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Improve filters for numeric attributes

It is not even the functionalities available for a numeric attribute than there is for the alphanumeric attributes. For the numeric ones, it only gives the option to 'Define a range' or 'Select individual items', but for the alphanumeric ones it a...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

log parameters and native query earlier

When my users run reports that run all day or repeatedly experience report failures, I want to be able to help them. In Cognos Administration, I enabled parameter logging by adding the custom setting RSVP.PARAMETERS.LOG = true and enabled native q...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report Update Trigger event when Data updated to Cloud

No current way to trigger an event to inform subscribers when new PowerCube data which their report uses is updated.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration