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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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display currently opened objects next to each other in 11.2.0

Now all currently opened objects are displayed one below the other. Is would be useful, to display them one next to each other, at least the latest of them. The benefit would be, that they could be reached then within 1 click.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Validate the prompt default selections and report views saved parameters on report run time for planning analytics packages

When you use planing analytcs as data source and package in reports, member unique names (MUN) are the identifier for PAL elements in reports. For treeprompts there is a default value which will be saved in MUN format. Also when you create report ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

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

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

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

HTML report formatting in Google Mail

Our company has changed to use Google Mail and HTML reports generated by Cognos with the content embedded in the body lose their formatting as Google Mail has this "feature" that they strip out styling that doesn't follow their rules. It would be ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Consumers, have the Icon to Delete a Report in Team Content, even if they don't have permissions do to so.

Even when removing execute permissions form a consumer to run a report, the ellipses drop down shows Delete icon in Team Content. If they click on it, it says they don't have permission, they should not see the option.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration