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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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Add Support for SLES 15.x

I received a follow up response from our Product Management team. They confirmed the following: Hi Mark, yes, we currently don't support SLES 15.x. It will be great if you can ask the client to log an IDEA on this so we can track this request for ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Delivered

Support Microsoft Identity Platform 2.0 API with Azure AD OpenID Connect (TS003289567)

Azure AD OpenID Connect API v1 (Azure AD for developers 1.0) doesn't support returning the groups claim in the ROPC (Resource Owner Password Credentials) logon method that Cognos uses to Authorize Stored Credentials for scheduled tasks and jobs. S...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Output tabular data of a query into Excel format

In Cognos BI or versions prior to Cognos Analytics 11.x.x there was the option to run the output of a query during design time into an Excel format which made it easy for developers to see, massage and analyze the data as they go. Even though it i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Missing option to Send report by email from report output

We are missing the option to send the report by email from report output after the report execution (when we have the final html or pdf generated on the screen) like it used to be the case in C10. Like this users could do the right prompting and w...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Google Big Query support for dynamic cubes

We use dynamic cubes running against Vertica database. There is an enterprise initiative to replace Vertica with Google Big Query in cloud. This means our dynamic cubes must be able to run efficiently against Big Query. We have already converted o...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Ability to turn off or lock the new feature of automatically creating table structures when dropping objects

The new feature in Cognos 11.1.1 of automatically creating table structures when dropping an object. This makes nesting data items into the end column/row of a crosstab or table very difficult. It also makes reporting writing unnecessarily difficu...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Bring back "Run As" option to shortcut

In C10, report's shortcut used to have the "run as" option as reports do. In C11.1 this option was taken away. Our users access reports via a shortcut and now they are not able to take advantage of the "Run As" option.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Export to excel of 11.1 line chart

I would like to be able to export 11.1 line chart to excel. It is already possible to export 11.1 bar (column) chart.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

IBM Cognos Analytics 11 - Dashboards - Summary Visualization Conditional Palette

Hello, This is Rui Gonçalves from BI4ALL. I'm currently working in a project using IBM COGNOS ANALYTICS DASHBOARDS and evaluating the possibility to provide to the client the type of analysis and visualizations required. I noticed that IBM Cogn...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Group Repeating Cells - export to Excel as Page Property

We create reports that detail the user-selected prompt choices on a cover page and the actual report on a report page. The cover page consists of a table with two columns: left column are all the prompt choices available, right column consists of ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered