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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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Default output format in reporting

Please use the same mechanics as in Cognos 10 where you had the same output format every time you clicked on the play button. Now you have to chose every report execution which output format you want to see.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics: Enable communication via proxy

Mr. Ronald Srnka from IBM and I are currently trying to implement Single-Sign-On for our IBM Cognos TM1 (Planning Analytics) at Bilfinger SE. However, while installing Cognos Analytics, we are facing the problem that the Cognos Analytics Service i...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

LDAP SSL Keystores

LDAP SSL Cert Format. Please provide additional formats besides cert8.db and key3.db. Preferable .jks or .kdb.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More Detailed Version Information in the cmplst.txt file

This is for the purpose of easily determining the installed version of Cognos and what the current Fix Pack is. We intend to use this in TSSA to run a script that would populate the version in the systems listing. No users impacted, just those tha...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add "Include Null Values" check box to Tab filters in Dashboards when using a Date column for the filter

Real-life scenario: In a data module there is a table with location data and another table with data relating to the location which includes a date column. Left join the two tables and some records will come back with null values in the date colum...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Put time & geographic attributes into Framework Manager

FM as the development tool should handle all information on the data model. Adding overmodelizations in the portal is not logical and adds unnecessary complexity. It's a menu of too much
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Company notification

Hello, My organization has enabled a notification beneath the green bar on preproduction in Cognos (preproduction will be down on a certain date). This notification appears every time a session is started. I start a lot of sessions during during m...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

add macro or function to query calc

Macro's and Functions do not appear in the expression editor.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sort members of Groups and Roles

I would like to be able to sort members within Groups and Roles. It is not easy to identify who is in a group or role, when names are in the order entered and not alphabetical.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make auditing Dashboard usage more straight forward

Currently, when looking at the audit logs around dashboard usage, a single run of a dashboard will show up multiple times, once for every widget on the page. There is no way to determine how often a dashboard is run without getting extremely infla...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration