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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


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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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Request Cognos Features

1. We need to be able to limit the number reports a specific user can run at once. 2. We also need to limit how many of a specific report can run at once.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to authorize access to AD per tenant

We want to arrange that a tenant administrator (so the administrator for a specific tenant) can link users from AD to a certain Cognos-group (license). We want to achieve that the tenant administrator is only able to see and select users from its ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Attribute in crosstab table in a dashboard

It would be nice to be able to display attributes of a dimension alongside with the dimension itself. Currently we can only display either the element or one of the attributes, but not dimension + attributes.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Search reports sent to

I would like to be able to query who reports are delivered to.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multi Select Cascaded Prompt Feature on Report Output Page

To give you a background, we want multi select cascaded prompts on top of the same report output page in Cognos Viewer without the need to introduce re-prompt button (or) any other built in tool options within the product. We used Java Scripts to ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Control Record Counts in Report Preview Mode

When building reports in preview mode, you cannot control the number of records returned. When a user develops a report against a large table (100K+) the time to see updates and the taxing of the database server can be extreme.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

With Clause on SAP HANA

When migrating from SAP BW on Oracle to SAP HANA or in general when using SAP HANA as data source via JDBC Dynamic Query Mode is not generating complex SQLs with a WITH CLAUSE statement. During a major project with a bank we experienced that from ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Full Interactivity mode for lists and crosstabs in saved HTML outputs

By default, if you run a report in full interactivity mode, a user can interact with the output in lists, crosstabs and visual data containers. He can filter, sort, group and summarize data in these containers. But if a user schedules the same rep...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide Team Content for ordinary users

In Cognos 10.2 it was possible to hide the public folder using "consumer_root" in system.xml. In 11.2.1 I have the ability to set the "reports" folder as the custom folder but team content is still visible. setting security is not possible as the ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

facility to hide 'send report by email' option

Please provide facility to hide the 'send report by email' option, so that users will not be able to select this.(this facility was there in Cognos 10). The schedule reports with 'email' option selected goes to waiting state and never get executed.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration