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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 macro current year in Default Selection property of Value Prompt object

In Cognos 10.2.1 Fixpack 6 in Report Studio:1. Using Crosstab I can add the following member year 2015 in Row:[Cube].[Year_Dimension].[Year_Hierarchy].[Level_Year]->:[TM].[Cube].[Year_Dimension].[@MEMBER].[2015]2. But if I want to add "current ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to close the browser window on session timeout when Cognos is configured for SSO

Client has a Cognos environment using SSO.After idle time spent on Cognos session, if user clicks on any folders or tabs, the user is presented with a windows pop up to logon. client wishes to not receive such pop up and instead upon session timeo...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

INTERACTIVE SEND BY EMAIL - If the size > defined smtp limit -> then send only the URL/LIN

launching interactively a reportselect prompt if any then choose "select a delivery option"If send by email is selected then there is no option to select only the URL not the attached report the issue is that for report whose size s above the thre...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: Remove popup warning when editing Data Items

Every time I edit a data item in Event Studio, I get a warning that Changing data items can change the behavior of the condition.Please, please remove this popup window!!
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

audit logs should distinguish user cancel from report failure

Our executives get monthly updates on report failure rates from our Cognos BI hosted solution. We find that a significant portion of the reports that are recorded in audit tables (cogipf_runreport) are actually user cancels. In order to develop ac...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

With Clause on SAP HANA

When migrating from SAP BW on Oracle to SAP HANA or in general when using SAP HANA as data source via JDBC Dynamic Query Mode is not generating complex SQLs with a WITH CLAUSE statement. During a major project with a bank we experienced that from ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add OK button when Apply mobile configuration

Add OK, Cancel buttons to dialog window when saving mobile Server configuration (Apply mobile configuration).
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable "Save as Report View" option on prompt page

The various toolbar option at the top right corner of the Cognos Viewer output page can only be utilized for the HTML format type reports. For the Excel and PDF format report as they are directly downloaded or opened without any output Cognos View...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show filter name in Cognos Workspace Advanved under Filters -> Edit Filters...

Enhancement of the usability of filters in IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced when using pre-defined filters of an Cognos package.When using pre-defined filters in Cognos Workspace Advanced the name of the filter should be displayed under Filters ->...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to stop the system from executing reports/jobs/tasks

Ability to stop the cognos environment from executing reports/jobs/tasks in case of database maintainance e.g.Stopping several dispatchers causes us many issues with report executions.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration