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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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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

Add syntax highlighting and function suggestions to Reporting's expression editor

Dashboard and data Module calculations support syntax highlighting, and possible functions are suggested as you type their first letters. That editor would be of great use in Reporting as well.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Remove options for functionality Save on external Filesystem

We are offering customers to provide Reports via A2A which they have to store on the filesystem. Unfortunately many customers are using the standard report name to store the reports on the filesystem with the usage of 'replace existing files'. Due...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Report Page Name localization

In Cognos Analytics version 10.2.2, we are using the functionality "View pages as tabs".When the report runs in HTML format, tabs are labelled with page names.Problem is : it is not possible to translate page name (no language variable, no conditi...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set the same Group Span for multiple columns in List object in Report Studio

currently in report studio of Cognos, there is no way to highlight multiple columns and set the same group span. have to high light each column and click on the group span and select multiple time. This is very annoying and not user friendly, grea...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Option to enable and disable highlighting common cells in a Table in interactive dashboard

Right now when there are common cells in a Table in interactive dashboard, clicking one of the common cells will highlight all common cells. Sometime this is useful but sometime this create confusion looking at the table. One way I learnt is to ad...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Chase Referrals in Cognos AD Configuration

Unable to sucessfully configure Virtual directory server in cognos that uses chase referrrals to route authentication requests to relevant AD's. Error for reference:[ ERROR ] CAM-AAA-0026 The function call to 'ldap_search_s' failed with error code...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set option on schedule to not send empty reports

It will be much easier if we had option on schedule to enable/disble empty reports send out. Now we can do this via Event Studio but its extra work.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - allow users to search pins based on tags

CA Dashboarding - allow users to search pins based on tags. There is a search capability, but there is nothing to search by. Need an easy way for user to find pinned widgets.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable Cognos BI to integrate with FileNet CPE 5.2.1.5 and greater

Update the code to integrate between Cognos BI and FileNet CPE 5.2.1.5 and higher.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration