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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 an Admin tool that is user Friendly in maintaining Roles and Capabilities

Add an Admin tool that is user Friendly in maintaining Roles and Capabilities. It would help in maintaining a clean, healthy and effective IBM Cognos BI environment. You currently has less to nothing as a tool to see all roles and capibilities. Ca...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Showing sender Full name instead of email address when cognos report is scheduled to email report

Hi, When we scheduled a report and select the option "send by email”, Report is delivered to our inbox with full email address instead of its name, for example if I schedule a report it will come to my inbox with email address AB_CD@ssga.com , o...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow URLs to be created on the Public Folders tab (not within a folder)

We would like to add a URL object to the Public Folders tab, but Cognos "Only Packages and Folders can be created under the root "Public Folders" directory." per this Technote: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21688742
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restore Displaying User Roles in Content Manager Log Files

In previous versions of Cognos, the user's roles were output to the Content Manager log files. This is no longer being done and we now have to get screen shots from the user to see which roles he or she is in.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide an ability to idenitfy request from 'Cognos for Microsoft Office'

With the currently functionality of the product, the requests from Cognos for Microsoft office can be same as the requests from other applications to the server as far as I know. There is no known method to identify Cognos for Microsoft office req...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

GW Dispatcher URI True Failover

We use Cognos BI and TM1 to provide critical financial reporting and planning to our C level and stock stakeholders. Providing a stable environment is key to Cognos continued success and adoption within the company. However with the BI GW not forw...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report views in Life Cycle manager

It would be very usefull to test report views in Life Cycle Manager, but on this moment report views are not supported.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have Audit Log show when Report is cancled due to the Report Server Execution time limit.

The system has the following configuration setting on the Report Server service: Maximum execution Time for the report service (seconds) = 3600 When reports hit this time limit, the Audit database (COGIPF_RUNREPORT) shows:RSV-SRV-0063 An error occ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Date Prompts should be empty as default

the date prompts have as default value the current date.The problem ist, that when the date prompt is an optional prompt, than the user must always clear the date prompt, otherwise the value (current date) whould be used as filter.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Clicking CANCEL on "Report is Running" popup should not return to Public Folder, Should Stay in Prompt Page

Include Functionality Change in how Report running process is currently executed in Cognos BI. When the report has Multiple Prompts in 1 Prompt Screen and 1 of them is cascaded with the other, then there are situations when 1st Prompt selection ru...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration