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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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Restore menue entry "Filter For Report"

In the 3rd Level of Package View the right click menu had an entry "Filter for Report" above "Sort for report". In newer version of cognos analytics above 11.1.2 it is gone. Support said I need to add an Idea here. What? This makes the report deve...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Folder Level Auditing Access Out of the Box

Currently out of the box Cognos audit data does not contain a clear and concise way to track user clicks at a folder level. We want to be able to easily track what folders a user has accessed out of the box. We want this solution without a complic...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future 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...
over 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 ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

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.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Split Data Modules to two : "Data clean" & "Data Modeling" tools

Data Module contains several features and becomes a real gas factory, far from a "self service" tool for a user, even advanced. I think it would be interesting to divide it into two tools. One to integrate and clean the data and another oriented r...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cube Designer for Dynamic Cubes: MultiSelect Measures and change at once the Format for all measures selected.

in the Cube Designer UI : having the capabiliy to select multiple measures at the same time (multi-select with CTRL+Click for example) and change the FORMAT for all measure selected at the same time ( like the feature we have in Framework manager ).
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Series Option in the Pie chart in RA in Cognos 11

Add Series Option in the Pie chart in RA in Cognos 11
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

All tabs/This tab filters exclusion

In Cognos Analytics as of now, when filters are added to All tabs/This tab filter, they are applied for all visualizations. Quite often it will be useful to allow to exclude/avoid applying the top filters in individual visualization (the only work...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Digitally signing email

Provide the capability to digitally sign email sent from the IBM Cognos Analytics environment. Digitally signed email assures the recipient of the email's origin and legitimacy. this is especially important when sending email that contains attachm...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration