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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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Include Report Name and Description When Doing a Copy Specification

Hello, it would be great if the report name and description were included in the XML/report specification when copying to clipboard. This is especially helpful when using the copy and open from clipboard method for moving a report from one environ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

REST API for viewing and managing object permissions

Enables users/IT support to find the permissions required to access a folder. Enables automation for configuring object permissions. Deploying permissions as part of a pre-defined Request For Change Verifying/monitoring that permissions are accurate.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

General Filters need more functionality

The general filters that go at the TOP of the DashBoard need more functionality. They only allow clicking on the options, but there should be options that should be exclusive and unique, por example a Y/N, the filtre should be letting you optional...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

View filter selection values in Workspace Advanced Report

When making a report using Cognos Workspace Advanced the paramvalues from the selection made on the prompt page are not displayed as they were in query studio. When a user creates a filter that is prompted a report expression that shows the select...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show Member Unique Names in Member Tree in dashboards (on hover or as property)

Provide property for every member in the tree in dashboarding using OLAP sources to see the MUN (member unique name). Show it also as popup on hover. Its absolutely crucial to see the mun to uniquely identify the right element as captions are not ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The option that grant "own credentials" to others should be controled by a capability i.e. "Manage own credentials"

Under MyPreferences => Personal => under "Credentials" a user is always able to grant credentials to others, there is not way to deny this feature. For some customer this is a security risk although it does not mean to grant data security cr...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Is it possible to update Cognos 11 to report a 'locked out' account?

Our client would like to be able to run a report or get an alert whenever a user gets locked out of their Cognos account.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add landscape option in Report Studio for Excel

Add landscape option in Cognos Report Studio tool for Excel output
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The dashboard does not work while Puppet is turned on

The feature of uploading Excel data and using it as a data source in data module is very useful. We tried to use this Excel data to generate dashboard. Unfortunately, we always encounter errors of displaying the data on the dashboard. After a revi...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Include a Link to Report when running Interactively

When running a report interactively and user selects Select Delivery Method/Email Report, there is no option to Include a Link - only to Attach the report
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration