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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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CA 11.2 Being able to reduce the Content header to show more data

In Cognos 11.2 when users change to the Content view, they complain that the header part uses too much space leaving only about half the screen for the data, if there are more than 5 objects, it is necessary to scroll down looking for those not sh...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

log parameters and native query earlier

When my users run reports that run all day or repeatedly experience report failures, I want to be able to help them. In Cognos Administration, I enabled parameter logging by adding the custom setting RSVP.PARAMETERS.LOG = true and enabled native q...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Displaying Time Zone in the Report Scheduler Window

Case ID : TS000068061The timings in the Cognos schedule is default to server time zone. It is getting difficult for the user to schedule timings when there are from different time zone. We are looking for an option where we can set the scheduler w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos DQM support for Actian Avalanche, Vector and Actian X

Up until the change from CQM to DQM was made our Database Vector was fully certified. Now we are unable to include Cognos as a Supported platform for the Dashboards that all use DQM to connect to the data sources. It is requested thatthe cognos ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

My folder limit size

It is good idea to limit my folder size for all users. Many users do not care about the size of their folders and the size of content store is greatly increased. The content store is cluttered and works slower
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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

Permission to create in the database

At the end of the Content Store configuration it tests the permission to create tables. We have created the tables manually , the permission to create tables is not necessary.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Links suppress Border

When add Report Links in Active Report, Can we delete/hide Border of iFrame.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When report is clicked to run, Cognos version 11.0.x shows a blank page before report result shows up. Request the same behaviour like Cognos v10.2.2.

When report is clicked, Cognos version 11.0.x shows a blank page before report result shows up. Request the same behaviour like Cognos v10.2.2. In real client environment, for complex reports, it takes more than 8 seconds for this blank page, end...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 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