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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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IBM report studio: Running basic satatistics over a query result, without requerying the database

I need to be able to execute statistical calculations over a query result in Cognos and there are no functions currently. We need to be able to process statistical calcuations after parameterized queries execute and result sets are created. IBM SP...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace: Add justification options to widget titles

We can add titles to widgets (slider and select value filters), but the titles are only left justified. Add ability to choose left, center, or right justification
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

content store not using bind variables causing system issues.

This is to avoid hard parsing that causes performance degradation and un-necessary shared pool usage. Please see in the attached spreadsheet, there are 230 SQL statements that are originated for the cognos content store schema. Any application not...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TM1 Integration into Cognos-BI

We're using TM1 since decades for planning and reporting. The integration into BI so far is not well done: Performance is very bad and also core features like subsets are not available in BI.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace Advanced - Visual Clue that SET is filtered

When SETS are filtered, there is no visual clue to show that it's filtered set.This applies to,1. When certain members are excluded from SET2. When SET is filtered using Custom Filter
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace: Ability to reset widgets needing update globally, tab.

I have several widgets on dashboards that are updated often.It would be great to have the ability to update all widgets that need updates, on a tab, or globally. This prevents a click storm having to hover, click on each widget.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

How to retain report properties after copy and paste

When Copying or cut paste a report from one folder to another folder is overwrites the existing report properties. Such as it removing the preset prompt values, report output type, etc... We want to retain the existing report properties when a use...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Default setting for Use Set Aggregate

By default when create Totals in the cross-tab, the value of the Use Set Aggregate property is set to true. Need to have an ability to set default value to false.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Connection: enable double-click on elipses from Search results to open or go to the objects parent location

when searching for objects, the results list has '/../' that when hovered over, displays the path for the object.Add ability to double click on the '/../' that opens or takes me to the objects parent location.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to control Cognos for MS Office access via admin security

Ability to control if a user can use Cognos for Office plugin can be used.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration