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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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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

Add Folder to Query Explorer Toolbox in Report Studio

Add Folder to Query Explorer Toolbox so it can be dragged into the Query window in order to organize/group queries
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

dynamic report output caching

DQM in combination with dynamic cubes brings exceptional caching capabilities. One aspect of the report execution process which is not cached in this system is the rendering of report spec and XML. In order to determine if the query can consume a ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Context filter and set display for exiting reports

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almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Auto Correct Feature

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almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Chase Referrals in Cognos AD Configuration

Unable to sucessfully configure Virtual directory server in cognos that uses chase referrrals to route authentication requests to relevant AD's. Error for reference:[ ERROR ] CAM-AAA-0026 The function call to 'ldap_search_s' failed with error code...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: Allow copy/paste of Data items between Event Studio (Like report studio)

enable copy and paste data item objects.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Viewer: Add right menu option to sort crosstab table ascending or descending on particular column

When report is executed and displayed in Cognos Viewer add right menu option on columns to "Sort ascending" and "Sort descending" option on column. When action performed crosstab should be sorted according to selected one column sort option. P.S. ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos viewer portlets cannot communicate in third party portals

When deploying portlets to a Websphere portal, we cannot set up inter-portlet communication between the viewer portlets. According to Greg McDonald, this is not currently the supported. A workaround was suggested of creating a cognos page with the...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global setting to set select or all reports default to HTML or Excel.

Global setting to set select or all reports default to HTML or Excel.Provide the Admin option to globally set/push report output settings to set as HTML or Excel. This feature would allow to set a single report or all reports. Targeted for Cognos ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration