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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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Enable advanced routing based on Studio application

Advanced routing in IBM administration console allows only based on package, role and group routing sets. It will be beneficial to add enhancement to route based on studio application where report has been built.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos BI compatibility with Oracle 12c Multitenant functionality

we are on cognos BI 10.2.1 FP4 , DBA team is working to upgrade Oracle platform and move all the databases from 11g to Oracle 12c. we want to use service name in JDBC connection string but it 's not allowing to use service name , it looks like it ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Schedule Default Format Sync Report Format

1. 在Cognos 10.2.1,設定排程時,預設的Format會跟直接執行報表預設的Format一致(ex. 報表預設執行為Excel 2007,設定排程時,預設的Format就會在Excel 2007)2. 在Cognos 11.0.11,不管報表的預設執行Forma...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global support for shortcuts in CA

We would like to have a global support for shortcuts in CA as in other modern BI/Analytics tools to speed up the work in CA interfaces. It would be appreaciated for dev in reporting as well as for users in interfaces on the most commont actions/bu...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

request for functional enhancement to add special characters support for trigger.bat/sh

My company requirements for passwords are the one letter needs to be capitalized, one number needs to be used and one special character needs to be used. Unfortunately using alphanumeric password for trigger.bat script would be required in current...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

LCM: Ability to consider stylesheets (.css) in report comparison

LCM should test and show differences between ReportStyles.css on source and target if this is a reason for a failed successful comparison.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Re-add dialog box help as per Cognos 10

In Cognos 10, all dialog boxes had a help link in the top right corner but this is no longer the case in Cognos 11.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Persistent or User-configured Width for Navigation Menu

We would like the width of the navigation menu on the left side of the portal to be either persistent or configurable by the user.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Logic for search results on Data Source panel in reports and dashboards

User is interested to know when user starts to input on search field on data source panel, how the appearing search result on data source panel is sorted in reports and dashboards. Is it based on some particular order or sorting format ? User woul...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Report: Pop-up window doesn't disappear automatically in Reports after user completes the text input in search field on data source panel.

Pop-up window doesn't disappear automatically in Reports after user completes the text input in search field on data source panel. User expects to see that such window will automatically disappear. User has to always click outside after completing...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration