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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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Freeze Panes for Excel Output

My client is trying to predict some of the complaints that the end users will have with the burst reports we are building. One of them is having to set the freeze panes field themselves. If there is a way to build in the freeze panes function in C...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Password expiration management in COGNOS Connection Portal

Users accessing COGNOS Connection portal are not notified wen their password has expired and get an "invalid login/password" error message.They have no way of resetting their asswrd and an administrator action is required.We would like to have the...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Echancement to user security for Life Cycle Manager

Hello, Product - Cognos Life Cycle Manager Purpose: Enhancement to user security We currently have Shared Platform within our company supporting 10+ lines of business with over 2800 users. When using LCM(Life Cycle Manager) we experience some issu...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Trapping QueryService changes via Event Studio for Dynamic Cube startup

I have many dynamic cubes. I choose to disable the queryservice from starting the cubes, as this would create too and uncontrolled load on the BI servers.Instead I have created content maintenance jobs to start my cubes in a controlled sequence. T...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customized populating of the email recipients

My external customer (Anthem Inc.) has requested the following functionality in their current Cognos environment, for which I am one of three Admins). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------When runni...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

drill down on map visualization

I want to analyze a single report by looking at the map visualization at multiple levels.I currently don't have a workaround and have no choice but to put multiple maps in the report. This method is very verbose and does not perform well.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Restrict Basic Signon for Internal Use Only

We would like to restrict our Cognos Basic Sign-On page to be available to only internal users (ie. restrict this page to only the internal Network). External users should only be able to login via the Single Sign-On page. We are not able to restr...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Navigation Map Feature

Business Object WebI report to Cognos Conversion gap Feature: Navigation map The navigation map feature in BO is used commonly and Cognos does not have an equivalent feature / functionality. The work around option is Table of content or Bookmark a...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show date the cube was updated in Workspace Advanced

our customer want to see the cube updated on date in Workspace Advanced - as this is possible in Report Studio and Analysis Studio
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have an option to include report run stats in the message when sharing the report

Have an option to include report run stats (e.g. when it was run, who ran it, what run parameter were used) in the message when sharing the report by email or by slack. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba....
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration