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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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Enable cell merge in crosstabs imported into Word

When a crosstab is imported into Microsoft Word, special cell-based border styles are not recognized. IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office respects the formatting style defined for the first cell in the table and applies this style to the entire report.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Content store consistency checker to clean groups

The content store consistency checker properly identifies users and groups in the content store that no longer exist in Active Directory. During cleanup, it will delete orphaned users in content store, but not groups. Please do groups too. Painful...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance advanced dispatcher routing to allow for AdHoc/Non-Core reports to be routed differently to "Approved" reports.

This would be useful, as it would allow the organisation to ensure efficient execution of "approved" reports (possibly driven by an administrative flag in the product) to dedicated resources, whereas other reports would be routed to a default rout...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Tooltip in Cognos Line chart(11.1Viz) is breaking and moving to next line.

We are using Cognos 11.1 R5 version and using Reports. We are using Line chart as a visualisation. Here tooltip in line chart is breaking and moving to next line. This is happening only for last values in the chart. Attached the screenshotMARCH | ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatic (Schedule) planned download of used licenses

The license information about the current licenses can currently only be exported manually. It would be helpful to export this information automatically or planned / scheduled.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Switch delimiter of the license information export file

It would be helpful if you could change the delimiter of the export file. By default it is the comma. However, there may be occurrences that the name of the login also contains a comma.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Timestamp Modification Details Not Captured in Audit Report

Problem Description: Report Timestamp Modification Details Not Captured in Audit Report . Problem description and business impact We are not able to see the Report Timestamp modified details in Audit Report. Please let us know why it's not capturi...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Please show F(X) Function Tab in DATA MODULE reporting

Please refer to TS001457028, the reply by gukaili (Dec. 3rd,2018).It's unconvenience without the F(X) function tab while developing report with data module
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Control Over Fully Interactive Toolbar

Being able to control what users within a role see allows you to setup one Dashboard for your entire population of users(no matter what level of expertise they have at running and understanding a report/data. Fully Interactive (FI) toolbar gives a...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Improper Validation of Session Capabilities

An application is vulnerable to improper validation of session capabilities. Changes regarding the permissions within the application aren’t applied to existing sessions immediately. This can be used by an attacker to regain previous permissions. ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration