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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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Data is retained when switching to a different PowerPlay package Using PAX

The requirement is such that, when a user switches from one package to another and the package comprises of the same physical PowerCube, the connection is made to the new package. Currently, the behaviour is that switching to a different pa...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report Links : Select more than one Applications Links.

In a Active Report given the opportunity to select more than one Applications Links.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change Cognos for Microsoft Office interface for Microsoft Office 2013 SDI

With the change of Microsoft Office interface from MDI to SDI in Office 2013 the Cognos for Microsoft Office panel will automatically appear in a new instance of Office when an existing instance of Office is open with the panel already open.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Use New Interactive Report Functionality via SDK

When embedding content into other applications via SDK, only the 10.2 functionality is available. There are none of the new features, such as sorting and filtering, that are available directly in the Cognos portal.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Upgrades - Detecting Customized Configurations No longer required

Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG) is a solutions provider with a complex architecture and implementation of Cognos Analytics. One our main struggles is upgrading from one version to the next. UKG has implemented product customizations, advance settings ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Control Metric Dump for each dispatcher independently

Currently enabling the Metric Dump in Cognos Administration (DISP.MetricDumpEnabled) causes all servers to start dumping metric based on the last server entered in the value field in Cognos Administration. The metricdumpconfiguration.xml of the la...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Header navigation not working in accessibility report

We are using classic viewer in an accessible report. We were unable to navigate to different headers (H1, H2...) even though Headers are setup in Tables Cells. Currently we are running JAWS-2019 version in firefox 68.0 ESR. Below keys are also not...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Functionality already exists

change the color of the font based on custom palletes for chart

Please add the feature to report studio for chart property to change the color of the font align with custom palletes
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Business Intelligence Architecture and Deployment Guide 11

For all previous versions of IBM Cognos an 'Business Intelligence Architecture and Deployment Guide' was available.Now, with IBM Cognos Analytics 11, IBM has drastically changed the way services work and communicate with eachother: Use of URL rewr...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Ability To Search Within A Security Group

Currently, any security group in Cognos has no way to search for users within the group. We'd like to have search capabilities within a security group. Since we cannot sort a group's membership, it makes it difficult to find certain individuals, e...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration