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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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Copy/Paste Reports (Deployment)

When deploying a report from one environment to another, using copy/paste to overwrite a report breaks report views and removes the schedule. Prior to Cognos 10.20 this never occurred. We'd like the old functionality back. A workaround currently e...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Visualization mouseover/drillthrough support of recursive parent child treemap (starburst, icicle, etc) internal nodes

Add support for mouseover tooltips and drillthrough functionality on internal nodes of recursive parent child treemap Cognos Visualization charts (such as starburst, icicle, etc) as is already working on the leaf nodes of same charts. Not having t...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to configure different email settings for each tenant (particularly FROM email address)

When configuring email functionality in Cognos Configuration, there is only one configuration possible. For example, if you are setting up email for your company (ACME), you can set up the sending email address as cognos.reporting@acme.com. The pr...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Processes List of Cognos BI on Linux Platform

Need to have the Processes List of Cognos Business Intelligence when starting Cognos Service on Linux platform, and the detail function description of each process. Need to have the Official Documentation from IBM Cognos DEV Team.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Restart on IBM WebSphere Application Server Admin Console

We cannot restart cognos application on IBM WebSphere Application Server Admin Console because of "JCAM_Crypto_JNI (Library is already loaded in another ClassLoader) Error". We want to restart cognos application on IBM WebSphere Application. So, p...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a column in Audit database where the parent report name can be retrieved for a report view

We have a report for which we have created report views in "My Folder".We want to tie up all the runs of these report views to their parent reports in the audit report. For example, when we create report views with different names and run them, th...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Defaults are not working on workspace even though the report studio report is working fine.

Defaulting the date prompt to a dynamic value(prior day's) using javascript in a report that has only prompts. The same report is used to filter other reports on a workspace. But, on the workspace, the last saved value shows up instead of a new va...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When saveing reports showing the shortcuts for navigation would be very helpfull

When saveing reports, shortscuts in Cognos Connection are not displayed in the "save as" dialog..It would be very usefull to have shorts cuts from deply nested public folder in personal folder for quick navigation..
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customize Report Viewing Formats per Report (Excel Options)

Our company uses Cognos BI reporting for business reporting. Some of our reports contain more than 1 query. This causes the viewing option, Excel 2007 Data, to fail. Since the option to view the report in Excel 2007 Data format is available and us...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ReportStudio/WorkspaceAdv ReportLayout expression to support coalesce function to handle NULL string concatenation problems

FM/ReportStudio/WorkspaceAdv supports COALESCE function to handle NULL string values. This is useful when an output string is concatenation of several items and some of the items could be NULL. In most cases we want to handle NULL string values as...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration