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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,


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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


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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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Tenant protected Audit database

We would like to give our customer that are set as different tenants in our environment capabilities to use the audit database.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multiple Report Outputs on a single Scheduled Mail

We have several different properties and each one have is own set of reports with their figures. As as corporate point of view, we wanted to have each report scheduled for daily email delivery. It is unpleasant to have 10 mails with 1 attachment a...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Microsoft Dynamics as a data source

We have a lot of application development be done using Microsoft Dynamics, because Power BI supports Dynamics and the option sets, departments end up using Power BI and Cognos isn't consider as a reporting option even thou we also have Cognos.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Option to turn off zooming in vizualisation 11.1x

My users are driving crazy with the vizualisation zooming. When several vizualisations are in a report, the zooming takes precedence over scrolling down. Just add an option to turn off this zooming in vizualisation properties. Thanks for my users.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Custom SQL in Report Authoring to specific datasource

We have a couple of datasources which all are modelled in a framework manager package or a data module. So the users can only use the package or datamodule but not the datasource itself. For some datasources we don't want to model or provide a dat...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Extend filter name cutoff in report creation

A user opening a report might want to look at the query details and quickly see exactly what is going on in the report. However, because the filter names seem to have a 50 char limit on the display, nearly every filter built into a data module is ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Allow OTHER CA environments report on TM1 database secured with mode 5 (CAM)

Currently, when a TM1 server is configured with IntegratedSecurityMode=5 (CAM), only that one CAM environment can report on that TM1 database. No other CA environment can query that TM1 database. To workaround that limitation, customers have to se...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search text in the report from the Cognos Portal Search

We are looking for option to have wide search in the cognos portal. We are only allowed with 11.1.x search functionality was enhanced and allows for searching of objects such as table and column labels in addition to report names, folder names, pa...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Bring back "Insert" and "Collapse all" option to menu on data items

In previous versions of CA (eg. 11.0.6) we had "Insert" and "Collapse all" options when right clicking a data item in the "Query"-view. In newer releases we only have "Display data items based on selection". Would be nice to have these options bac...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Enable HTTP/2 protocol feature in Cognos Analytics WLP

It should be possible to enable HTTP/2 in the provided WLP for Cognos Analytics - Liberty supports this feature; HTTP/2 supports queries multiplexing, headers compression, priority and more intelligent packet streaming management. This results in ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists