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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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Adding Users/Groups from LDAP

We have a very large LDAP directory. When we are adding users/groups, we connect to the LDAP. We can see the LDAP structure and objects. If a user click on one of the objects like Groups, the query will take a very long time. During that time the ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

dataModules Expression variables API

we´re digging into dataModule usage and we´ve found some samples wich, inside dataModule, uses some advanced expressions to define month to date (MTD) calculations over dates. We´d like to find full support about the posibilites of this expression...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Chart Legend thickness

We have a requirement to increase the width of the chart legend lines' thickness. If there are more lines, especially if the report is printed on paper it's impossible to differentiate between the colors, as the representative lines on the legend ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

mattermost integration

Currently only Slack is supported as a collaboration platform. Our client uses Mattermost. It would be great if that were supported, too.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Pass through SQL

Hi, We are looking for an Audit Report or an SDK Functionality to identify the number of pass through sql reports used in a Environment Thanks.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TXT as report output

We do have CSV that works as TXT. However, one has to go through scripting renaming etc to accomplish the same. It will be very helpful to add a report option to create output type as .TXT
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Possibility to customize the welcome message of the homepage.

Hope to customize the welcome message of the homepage.Currently is possible only modify the colors of the application bar and the navigation bar, set the corporate title that is shown on the home page.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CAM Copy User Security Group Assignment

In the current design of CAM, the administrator can copy a group and it is working fine. However, when we want to copy a user's profile, it became impossible, as there is no visibility for us to know what group the user is belong to. In many occas...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Get notification (toaster) when Dataset and/or Job has finished loading (even if started as part of a job)

If user subscribes to the notification the toaster is notifying "Dataset loaded" and or "Job xxx finished" it sticks until closed by user. Really the feedback for a job finished successfully is lousy and the timestamp for datasets is not always in...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Option to copy prompt parameters between reports and report views

We are missing option to copy saved prompt parameters between report views or reports.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration