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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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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

Skip the Audit DB connection and move over to Content Store during service start, if Audit DB is down

When the Cognos Services start the first check is the Audit Database.If the Audit Database is down, then the check should move further leaving a message that Audit DB has a problem, instead of services going into infinite loop. Note: very importan...
about 10 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

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

Ability for user to hide date of content folders, dashboards, powerplay reports

I would like to have the ability to hide the date below the name of folders, dashboards, reports, etc. in the navigation bar.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

cognos analytics cube designer issue case # TS001585275

Hi, Cognos analytics cube designer not supporting aggregate function like max,min.We are trying to use the min,max function in cube designer but the options are not available to use. Thanks, Sakti
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Teradata Temporal Table Support

For a Project called SRS (reconciliation Ledger with Finance & Risk & Liquidity, 10,000 Users) , BNPP uses Cognos BI on top of Teradata. Teradata introduced a new data type (PERIOD) and associated constructs and methods to perform temporal...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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

Transparent content manager switch

Today when a content manager switch to standby (as failover or when activating manually by admin team), the switch is not transparent towards users. The active sessions are kept but all ongoing report/report view/job exeuctions are failing. We wou...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration