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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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Add Informix Sample Datasources for Cognos 11 Samples

Cognos Analytics / 11 currently only provides sample data for SQLServer, DB2 and Oracle. Since the ready-to-run version of CA runs its Content Store in an Informix Database it would be useful to be able to run the samples in it as well.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Refocus Prompt Page to Selected Prompt control after Page Reloads

When you click on a reprompt button on a prompt page with multiple prompts, the user is taken back to the first prompt on the page.This behavior is also seen with search and select prompts. Can the product behavior be modified to retain the focus ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

change display time for multiple objects on story mode

When using a story that contains multiple objects, changing the display times for all objects is very difficult. Not all objects align to the exact same end time therefor it may look unprofessional. My suggestion is, 1. First option is to add to ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pb with master data attribute (subtotals)

This RFE is following another Filtering criteria has to be based on members attribute value and total subset has to take account of these attributes members filtering. Just for information, the customer asked before: "workspace advanced display pa...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Repeater in Dashboard: Being able to control the Direction, how many Across and Down

Repeater in Dashboard is way to simplistic. Users should be able to control the Direction, how many Across and Down The moment there's more groups/categories displayed by the current Row/Columns Repeater can handle, it looses it's purpose
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Shared folder links do not work for anyone except Administrators if a custom folder is configured

Any shared folder link from Cognos Analytics ( 11.0.0 through the most recent version 11.1.1.0) will not work for anyone except System Administrators or Folder Administrators and therefore this feature is useless if shared with other Consumers/Aut...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Fix Pack document to include if content store version is upgrading or not

Client wants to request that the fix pack release document should include the information about -- if the fix pack will be upgrading the content store version- if fix pack is releasing any new features or deprecating any features. Note - a fix pac...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Row count auditing .

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almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to collapse by default the "Show properties" option while creating a new report

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos version 11.1.7 and we would like to control the "Show properties" option while creating a new report. In our current Cognos version (11.0.13.1), the "Show properties" pane is collapsed by default, so use...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Schedule Report with External Data Source

We have external spreadsheets from systems that do not integrate. However, we need to compile the data from the spreadsheet with system/package data. I understand that this is possible through external data sources. However, a report cannot be sch...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration