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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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Remove Select a Delivery Method instead or Waiting

In previous versions it was possible to hide the message "Select a Delivery Method instead or Waiting", which prevents users from submitting their running report into the background.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show full path on tooltip in Administration for CJAP objects

Tooltip in administration not showing full path for objects coming from CJAP namespace.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Source Connections - Set Password Dynamically

Problem / Use Case - In Cognos Data source connections can be created in multiple places. Either of the below cases we need to enter the password manually. Considering knowing the password in Production databases is a Security Risk. So Implement a...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

CSV Output with Double Quotation

Need Double Quotation when the users output through CSV from Cognos Analytics. They used to customize but they are now have to use standard feature, and cannot customize, however they request the new feature.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search for "pacakges" is needed in Cognos Analytics 11

In Cognos 11 users can search for 'Reports, Folders, Dashboards, Data, Explorations, Notebook and other' but one of the most important objects "packages" is not on the search list. It is often "how many packages are in ...... cognos environment" b...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Add a recycle bin for administrators

Users delete items by mistake and it would be nice to have a way to retrieve those items easily. It could empty on a rolling cycle to reduce size
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

"Edit Report" Button Option in Legacy View

Need an "Edit Report" option button added to the Legacy View of Cognos Analytics to mirror the functionality of the "Open with Report Studio" option in Cognos 10.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support lines in the visualization map in Cognos

Tableau has the functionality to easily upload a shape file in mapbox and visualise on a map the rivers,.... When selecting in a table a certain river, the river on the map in mapbox is highlighted. The opposite is also possible, when selecting a ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

change default load options in Data Module creation

need to change default load options in Data Module creation:1. make the 3 options unchecked by default in Data Module Load Option2. make all the tables unchecked by default in Data Module load option A PMR case has been raised - TS001531259
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Correct filename when exporting report to PDF

When opening a report in PDF and try to download it, the filename is always "ext.pdf", no matter, which report is being opened. This issue occurs only in Internet Explorer, when doing the same steps in Chrome for example - the filename is "report_...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration