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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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Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Ability to hide option to run job in all at once mode

Hello, to avoid overloading the system especially by one user, we need to have option to disable/hide option to run jobs as all at once. This option is too dangerous as one user can create large jobs and take all the application resources.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Statistical Distribution Bins

There is no good functions for statistics: splitting a distribution into bins.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under 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...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Make dialogs smart - prepopulate options to be selected with possiblity to overwrite manually

Any dialog with pre-populated option-select-boxes should enable the user to select predefined values and still give the possibility to manually enter, change or overwrite the value in case new CSS or HTML rules are released from W3C.In this case t...
over 6 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 ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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.
over 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.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Parallel Framework Installs

There is no alternate way of running multiple version of Framework manager on the same server.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration