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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 Rocky Linux as Supported Operating System

Rocky Linux has been selected by our company as the standard operating system for all applications. As a SaaS provider standardization across the organization has a tremendous impact on our ability to service and would produce cost savings. Rocky ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

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

Data Module Table Repoint

We had some tables moved from one schema to another I couldn't repoint nicely within the native Analytics Data Module compared with what we could with Legacy Framework. I was able to relink the old schema to the new but since we were already using...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 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

Edit Cognos Charts in PowerPoint

A chart is exported from Cognos to PowerPoint(PPT). It is then sent to the client for review. The client requests font changes (non-data) to the chart. However, to make these changes the developer has to go back to Cognos, make the updates, log th...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add Legacy tools directly under New

Currently, Query Studio is under other applications, after selecting New, within the portal. An extension should be available to modify the "New" selections so that the legacy tools don't need to have the extra click to go through "other applicati...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Not under consideration

Add possibility to exclude dataset output in backup process

This functionality provides the possibility to exclude dataset output from the backup process.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Lifecycle Manager Reports

In the 10.2.2 version of Lifecycle Manager, we used to be able to do comparisons and create reports that we could print for our customers to show them the differences and what failed, etc. There is no reporting or exporting of results as previousl...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration