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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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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 ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under 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...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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 ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Audit Migrations

Need the ability within the Audit database/package to see details of a migration in a report for compliance purposes.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change location of the information to the center of donut(Pie) chart when hover on the partition

Our team uses the dashboard in wide variety of our end user requirement. currently in each board we are using Pie chart with Donut view, when hover the mouse on each section the label with values is flying horizontally, we would want to have it in...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add capability to input URL to local Mapbox server

For sites that are in closed networks, that have no internet connection there is an error when using mapping that goes to Mapbox. We would like to have the ability to define the Mapbox server location to be able to use this functionality.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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

Extensions: Folders as submenús

Posibility to define folders in json extensions, in orden to be able to agrup several reports/dahsboards in a collapsed view, and then expand this folder (navigable menú, not only executable reports)
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When we are scheduling the report via trigger, password should be hidden or we should be able to run the trigger without password

as you understand it is dangerous to hardcode password in a bat file where it is visible by anyone
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration