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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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Download as Excel and cancel button appear too early

When you run a report as Excel, if interactivity is turn on, the first page of prompts displays at the top of the page a header indicating "Download as Excel" + a CANCEL button. Nothing has been executed yet. This message is displayed too early ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Tenant Export Feature Enhancements

The current tenant export feature does not export users "My Folders" i.e. their personal folders and schedules. The feature will export Cognos Custom Security roles which are in the Cognos namespace but does not include the membership of these roles.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Optimizations of the "Run in background" dialog

There are simply too many clicks required to run reports in background. When I activate 'Run in background', more functions pop up. To get to the 'Delivery' container, I have to scroll down first. If I then activate 'Send report by email' and have...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Cognos Content Manager should wait for the Database during initialization

During the content manager initialization, if it cannot connect when it attempts to access the database for the content store it will log an error and exit. Instead, it should go into a wait loop where it tries to connect every X seconds up to a m...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to build transformer cube on cloud server

On CloudBI users create cubes on premises and then transfer MDC files to a SFTP server. The time to build a cube is higher especially for clients with data in soft layer.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Salesforce.com Data Source Connection Updates

Update for Cognos 10.2.2 and above. Update API version used for Salesforce.com data source connection. 10.2.2 leverages API version 18 which Salesforce has expanded the objects available within the connection in later releases.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show a graph on Dashboard where we have to design a Graph which shows a Stacked Bars for multiple products in different colors and a Line as average.

Requirement to have a line showing the averages on a Stacked Bar graph which represents multiple products and the live representing the average. Business has been using Tableau Dashboard tool and we are migrating from Tableau to Cognos, Business i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Consistent icon usage in IBM Cognos

Inconsistent usage of old and new icons in Cognos 10.2.2 The UI of Report Studio and others have been revised. However in some scenarios the old images are still shown, which breaks the look and feel of the UI. Example:1. Open Report Studio with t...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

email signature added to Set the email options

In a future release we would like to have the ability to include an email signature (that could be defined and saved somewhere, perhaps from My Preferences) so that when schedules are being setup there would be the ability to add it in
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Accessibility feature - access more menu for source objects in the source pane with keyboard

In Dashboards it is not possible to access the (…) menu for source objects in the source pane with keyboard. It should be possible to access the menu with the keyboard in order to assist users who have a disability.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release