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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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Enhanced error information for data modules

Data modules are created and used for extended periods of time without changing and multiple reports are built off them. If a data source is renamed or moved multiple reports fail, however the error message they generate don't point the data modul...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Latest XLS/CSV instance downloadable for restricted user

IBM Case: TS000978831 Cognos Analytics provides new capabilities to control users from generating XLS, CSV etc. output types, called as "Generate CSV Output" etc., however these capabilities aren't able to control the outputs in a lot of cases. On...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

start lcm as a windows service

my team has lifecycle mgr installed but noticed we have to run the start script everytime we want to use lcm.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global settings for Cognos display and download of reports

We have generated reports in Cognos, numeric values are not right justified and we need to change all the impacted reports ( as we are currently upgrading our Cognos 10 to Cognos 11), unlike if there will be a global settings for this or by defaul...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Cascading prompts that contain only a singluar element should also receive a box frame like the ones with mutliple elements

Currently Cascading Prompts that contain only one selectable Value will not show a Box Frame similar in Outline to those that have multiple Elements for selection.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Render Text from IBM Planning Analytics in Cognos Reports and Dashboards

Ability to render free form (unstructured) text such as user comments from IBM Planning Analytics in Cognos Reports and Dashboards. Currently, text sourced from IBM Planning Analytics does not render in Cognos Analytics reports and dashboards. Ide...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Access Members from Multiple AD Forests

Cognos is unable to search members across Active Directory forests. Cognos must have a separate namespace configured in Cognos Connection for each forest. This creates overheads on Administration by maintaining multiple namespaces.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add additional options to the Share functionality

We often share reports with users via the share functionality within the portal (right-click>Share>Link). This creates a url which can then be emailed (or embedded in other reports and web pages etc). We often need to further edit the url to...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Provide Macro Functions in Send Email Sections

Provision to add following dynamic text to be report output file distributed via email1. DATE or YY/MM2. Source of the Report (Package Name or Cube Name)3. As of Date/Time4 .Data source Name
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Caching of large packages or modules for low bandwidth

Several users need to work in low bandwidth environments (5 or 2x2 Mbit), which currently may result in slow loading or in JS timeouts when large packages (35MB model.xml) are loaded in Authoring. With this idea, users in low bandwidth environment...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration