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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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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

Allow tenant switch without the loss of my content

Setup=====We use a multi-tenant environment for different customers with the same database.There are some special customers (service provider), they have access for more than one tenant (but not for all).For this purpose we are using a customized ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Nav Bar size after opening reports or dashboards

When ever a user opens a report or a dashboard, the icons on the Nav Bar shrink and their labels disappear. This will make it hard for users to operate the Nav Bar especially if they are new in Cognos and trying to get familiar with it. This will ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Couchbase Data Source

Customer is now leveraging Couchbase for data that needs to be reported on.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module shortcuts should inherit target navigation paths

Shortcuts are a new feature within a Data Module. Shortcuts should inherit all the attributes of the target object. For example, I can create a shortcut to the Product dimension. The product dimension can be included within a navigation path. Any ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release

easy to show the SQL query and result

Currently, Cognos can show the SQL statement of the CQM model, but in the case of the DQM model, cannot show the SQL statement and just the MDX statement only. Most customers want the SQL statement. To view the SQL syntax, we must save it as a log...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Signed React Embedding

This is useful to streamline the process for embedding, quickly enabling organizations to share Cognos reports and dashboards in existing applications.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Access data set filters in Design View

When you are in Design View in a data set you don't have access to see what the filters are on the data set or to change them, you need to go into Preview View which could take a long time to load if you have a large data set.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Cognos Analytics Archive Location automatic reconnect after network disconnection

Jobs scheduled in Cognos Analytics began failing when using an Archive Location. An error indicating that the archive location file system root could not be found. The root cause was due to a network connection issue and as a result Cognos Analyti...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration