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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...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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

Disable query hints at report level to avoid override model level or server level governance

There are a few governors that we want to ensure they cannot be overridden at report level. 1. Maximum row retrieved (report level)/Maximum number of retrieved rows (model level) 2. Maximum execution time (report level)/Query execution time limit ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 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

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

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 ...
over 9 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 ...
about 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

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.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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