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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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Need ability to set the custom login page as default login page using SDK or some background process not from UI manually

We have created a sample login page, welcome page and our Own theme. But we don't want to import them using the UI - Manage-customization- extensions, rather we want to do it using SDK or some process like import content deployment and make them a...
almost 8 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

Allow linked Visualizations in Reports

When visualizations are added to a Report, then filtering one visualization in a interactive report should automatically filler other visualizations if they share the same query. This is the functionality found in Dashboards and also the functiona...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

When creating a report without using a package, an error is thrown when using SQL Queries

When creating a report without using a package, an error is thrown when the SQL Queries component is used. One must add at least one package in a report in order to use the SQL item in a report. No package is needed when using SQL Queries, so leav...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing search capability when adding a source to report

when adding a source to a report like package or data module, the user need to select the source from the my content or team content folder by browsing the content folder structure. Sometimes this folder structure could be very large with many sub...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Show No Data Available in scheduled report/job vs. job fail

Have a list report that runs every day. If data is not available, running interactively will show 'no data available'. If report is run as a scheduled report/job, then the job fails rather than returning report with no data available as the message.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to rotate column headers in Cognos Dashboard Crosstab Visualizations

Whilst using the crosstab visualizations in Cognos Dashboard functionality, we would like a feature that would allow us to rotate the column headers, similar to the functionality offered in Cognos Report functionality. This would be great feature ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics support for EBS volume encryption

Cognos Analytics deployed on AWS cloud EC2 instances. The ability to use EBS encryption for data at rest
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IMAP (and TLS over IMAP) support

Product: IBM Cognos 10.2.2Actor: Janalakshmi Financial Services IBM Cognos is commonly used product for BI reporting. Description: Our team uses IBM Cognos 10.2.2 for BI reporting. We also use feature of Cognos to send reports as email attachment ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules - Provide DQM Settings

In Framework models you have the ability to set DQM settings: Multi Fact Join Operator can be set to "Equal Operator". BigQuery doesn't support "Is Not Distinct From" and there are no visible options to change the behaviour of a Data Module. If yo...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration