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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 monitoring/alerting on indexing service

There is no direct option to monitor and alert if index service stop working, there is no option to start it again except restart the whole environment and if it stops the search option in cognos portal doesnt work anymore as well as the user do n...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add option to start/restart indexing service

We woud like to have option to start index service on content manager. There is no stand by option if this service stop working, there is no option to start it again except restart the whole environment and if it stops the search option in cognos ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add support for Android Push Services to IBM Cognos Mobile

Customers might want to also setup Google Cloud Messaging or Azure Notification Hub currently Mobile only implements Apple Push Network (APN)
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow Filters to appear above Tabs on tabbed reports

On tabbed reports with in page filters, the filters appear below the tabs making it look weird. Would like the filters to appear above the tab. Would
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search should be additional for content (all terms "anded")

when searching for content in the Cognos Analytics portal in 11.1.6 the behavior appears to be an "or" search. In other words if I search for A simple report name the search is executed on content as A [or] simple [or] report [or] name. This searc...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos reports need date/time

Cognos reports need date/time to be appended while saving to the file system.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos BI to operate and co-exist with ipstatus conntrack "stateful "firewall" with "default" configuration settings

New Functionality requested with Cognos:When Oracle maintenance is required to be carried out there will always be a Cognos CS instance available. We're seeking for Cognos BI to operate in such a manner to ensure that it ipstatus conntrack table o...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add specific values tab for decimal values in custom filter dialog

In Cognos 10 Report Studio there was a specific values option in the custom filter dialog also for the decimal data type. In Cognos 11 it was not implemented as a separate tab for the decimal data type, only for integers. We have many users, that ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Option to hide the "hide summaries" icon from the List visualization TS003669098

My Customers will not be confused about this useless widget.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report views in Life Cycle manager

It would be very usefull to test report views in Life Cycle Manager, but on this moment report views are not supported.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration