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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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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

Useless Insert Member Dialog

When inserting a level-property such as "Product Line Code" from a dimensional model like "GO Sales (analysis)" Reporting asks if just the property should be inserted. There's no alternative answer selectable though, thus the question seems useles...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing option to set interactive connections between visualizations in reporting

We would like to create our dashboards in reporting but to simulate what dashboard can do we need an option to set up interactive connections between visualization enabling gestures like filtering data inone vis based on selecting in another one w...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Implement load-balancing in Cognos Analytics

Implement load-balancing in Cognos Analytics
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reports can only be saved on same location

We noticed that saving a report (in the new interface) in the delivery options only applies to the report itself. It is not seemingly possible to save the report in a different path. If we use the classic overview and stop the delivery, we can sti...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos to force users to open a specific browser

We are on C 11.0.13 Fix Pack 1 in Production Environment. This is regarding browsers. Since Cognos URL have issues with Edge, and lots of our client machines are set to Edge as default browser's and when they receive E-mails with report links etc,...
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

Reduce nb of click to edit report view

The path to edit report view in CA 11.0.12 is longer and less understandable than tin CA 10.2.1 (cf example)The user in CA 11 need to click on the number of parameters in order to access to the edit button.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Value prompt vs. Tree prompt Settings

1- It would be useful to have a "Show Select All" option in the bottom of the Tree prompt box (same as Value prompt)2 - It would be useful that the same color would be used when hovering over the available options of a prompt box so that the color...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Separate admin console

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