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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


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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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Data server - Refreshing metadata should not select new tables

Refreshing Cognos metadata from SAP HANA by default selects all the available new tables from HANA DB, every time we will have to deselect all tables and then select the tables needed for my reporting, which is causing unnecessary delay as our DB ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Active Report calcuation issues - Case#TS002110638

IBM Analyst has request to raise a RFE for TS002110638 as it's a limitation, please check and fix it ASAP
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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

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...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

create schedules but not reports

To create more fine-grained permissions, so we could grant "Write schedules" but prohibit "Write reports", or something like that
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for open jdk

Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 and future releases - Provide support for open jdk (current version) openjdk version "11.0.17" 2022-10-18 LTS Infosec requires the java version on our servers to be up to date and they scan the servers weekly.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Event Studio: Email Tasks > Add ability to set REPLY-TO email field

To Email Task, add email address for REPY-TO, in addition to the To: CC: and BCC:
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow customization to fix the header size in Cognos dashboard or to show message 'No data available' in case selected data is not available

In the dashboard, I was showing data in the table visualization. It is working fine if the data is there. Rows are getting resized automatically to fit in the defined box. But If there is no data available then header automatically resized to the ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Column headers in crosstabs

Add column headers to crosstabs. By default there are no headers for dimensions. The lack of headers is especially difficult for users who export to Excel.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration