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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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Hiding the Data Server type in Cognos 11

Customizing the Data Server Type list from Data Server List in Portal . I would like to delete/Deactivate the Data Server list from manage menu which are not required
about 8 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...
about 10 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...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Support for VARBINARY data type (HANA) in DQM in IBM Cognos Analytics

The import of fields with the data type VARBINARY from HANA in IBM Framework Manager rises an error. To connect to HANA DQM mode is required. The import of fields with an VARBINARY data type in IBM Framework Manager causes the DQM-error XQE-GEN-00...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Wordcloud interactivity

Currently, a word cloud is filtered by the filters in the "all tabs" or "this tab" pane. When a user applies a filter on another visualization, the words in the cloud will be highlighted. We would like to have the ability in the properties to opti...
about 6 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
about 10 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...
about 4 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.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filtering on navigation paths hierarchy

Request the ability to be able to filter a visualization based on a hierarchy or navigation path similar to Watson Analytics. For example, with a navigation path defined as year, month and the ability to filter​ based on it, it is easy to filter o...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Report- Default sorting for date fields

Today, in report, users have to click on the ascending or descending sort option to sort the date field values.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration