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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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Event Studio: change the left/right scroll arrows to move an entire task, not a teeny bit at a time

while editing an agent, author can scroll tasks via the right and left scroll buttons. The problem it takes about 3 clicks to reveal just one task. Change the horizontal movement to be 1 click moves one whole task.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: Email Tasks > Add ability to set REPLY-TO email field

To Email Task, add email address for REPY-TO, in addition to the To: CC: and BCC:
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

You can only jump from an executed WorkspaceAdvanced report into Report Studio

If a report designed in WSA is executed it should show the Workspace Advanced Icon in the menu in the upper right corner instead the Report Studio Icon and should jump to the WSA-Studio. Not every WSA consumer has the rights and the ability to wor...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Specify retention period to External Repository

With Filenet as external repository, Cognos Administrator doesn't seem to have any control over Retention period. Need a feature on Cognos to let the external repository know about the retention requirement at each report level.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extended Logging Information for IBM Cognos Administration

Customers would like to be able to directly monitor CPU and Memory Usage of BIBus Processes. It should furthermore be identifiable which user is running the current task and what the tasks resource consumption is. BiBus1 (PID, Assigned to CPU 0, c...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restart Individual Services with one click in Cognos

When stopping and starting individual services in Cognos Administration without restarting all services, there should be a "restart" option in addition to "stop" and "start". It would start the service as soon as the service successfully stops -- ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Deploy - Export/Import Datasources

Deploy - when we check deploy datasources, cognos deploys all the datasources in the environment.1. Like other areas in Cognos - we should be able to create DS in groups, inside a nice folder and deploy then in groups or individually - with creden...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to control the number of XQE log files in logs/XQE folder

Currently there appears to be no other way to control the number of log files to kept in logs/XQE folder, other than manually cleaning them up. Client would like to have a feature similar to cogserver.log files to allow only specific number of fil...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace pass parameter in URL

Include the ability to pass a parameter into a Workspace URL to be used by applicable reporting objects.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need ability to search dimensions and levels, not just members.

We have many sources in our environment, but they are not all documented formally yet. And some of our dimension levels definitely contain more than 20 items.As an author, I often have a need to determine if a particular source has a particular di...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration