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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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Double Click selection Prompt Options

Double Click selection Prompt Options. Provide a double Click prompt in the "Search & Select" prompt. This prompt enables Add Fields / Remove Fields via double clicking on an item. Targeted for Report Studio
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Banner & Alerts on Connections Page

Banner & Alerts on Connections Page. Provide the option to setup and maintain a banner on the Connections page. This banner would have the flexibility to be setup with messaging to inform a user that report data was updated or not from batch. ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Support for Microsoft SQL Server Migration

As part of our migration strategy to update all applications currently running with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 to Microsoft SQL Server 2019 (Cognos Command Center and Cognos Integration Server) , we ask for support in problem solving during the mig...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

This issue of vertical alignment in column headers for PDF

Creating this RFE based on the below response from IBM:This issue of vertical alignment in column headers for PDF has been an 'issue' for a long time. I have verified that it still occurs in CA11. Unfortunately, it was deemed not to be a defect in...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: Ability to add Generate Trigger action

Add new action of trigger, to Event Studio
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

set a parameter value dynamically

I would like to be able to set a parameter value dynamically. I would like to create a report that suggests some parameters depending on the 1st parameter.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Configuration setting to limit the report retention settings and hide from users

We are a hosted solution that offers Cognos to multiple clients. We want to restrict users from storing too many saved report executions due to space constraints on our hosted content store.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Excel Email Link Naming Option

Currently, when a job sends an email with a link attached for an Excel file, the link title says Excel 2007. There is no way to customize this. The problem we are having, is that some users believe that the generic link name is a phishing attempt ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

SUMMARY shows wrong values until all nested items are nested within Summary

When crosstabs in Workspace Advanced has nested rows (for example Products and Channels), creating SUMMARY on the first item (Products) shows wrong TOTALS until all Channels or Summary of Channels are manually nested within in.In Analysis Studio, ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pick created Dashboard visualizations in read-only mode

Dashboard is created with viz and the author also includes other viz not shown on the canvas. This dashboard is published to user base. User base (non-edit mode) can then remove. resize viz and a select the other viz associated with the dashboard....
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration