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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 Email Encryption using third party software like Voltage

We would like to have the capability to integrate the emails sent from Cognos with an encryption software such as voltage. It would usually require the capability to modify the header information to include a tag (Eg: “X-Voltage sysencrypt”).S...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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

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.
almost 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.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

implement EXISTS or NOT EXISTS operator in reporting

I would like to have the possibility to use in reporting the sql EXIST operator available. I don't like to write manual sql because of manteniance and portability or use other shortcuts or alternative to implement the sql EXIST logic for example u...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Arrays in Cognos

Per IBM, currently it does not support data type of arrays...In some complex data models we need this type of data type to be supported by cognos for reporting...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Enable local cache for Vendor Specific functions

Problem Statement : Local cache does not work when user defined or vendor specific functions are used in queries. Description: Currently there is a functionality in COGNOS FM or reporting tool to turn on local cache to re- use query cache for subs...
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
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Only Drill THrough icons to be visible to users

Users should be able to see only Drill through icon when they run the Dashboard unlike the IT Developers
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration