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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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Read Only Access to Permissions and Capabilities Tabs

Users who can't access folders or reports due to security settings don't understand what the security settings are to know what access to request. They can't see the Permissions and Capabilities tabs of the objects.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Please add status of unatteneded install of Cognos Analytics

Cognos BI 10.x had a status window during unattended installation. Cognos Analytics does not. Only way I can see if its done is to monitor the javaw.exe process via Task Manager in windows
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

.NET Data Provider for Teradata

Ther Teradata DB gives the option to install the ".NET Data Provider for Teradata" database driver. Is it possible to implement it, so that you can choose this driver to connect to the Teradata DB in Cognos Analytics? Until now it is only possibl...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

reusable custom group

Instead of creating custom group in Data module for adhoc semi-adhoc report. or create a group for every single query or global query. The business is looking for a capability to do that directly in the explorer object
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

remove the default group by

Using the report studio on V11.1.5: When we drag and drop two objets in column section it automatically group by the first colunm. example: Country City Measure ---------------------------------------- France Paris 88 Marseille 55 Bord...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Calculate distance using geospatial objects

We want to be able to calculate who travels the longest distance using postal codes and who travels the longest distance most frequently.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics permit/denied Job creation

currently all users can create jobs, I wish I could decide, as in many other Cognos tools, to whom to give or to whom to remove this functionality . No workaround. Need to create a capabilities to manage this functionality. User can create a Jo...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Database column description for QuickInfo

Most database tables contain descriptions for their columns. These descriptions should be accessible for Cognos to fill the QuickInfo-Box for model users.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for viewing spatial layers in Cognos RS

Support for viewing spatial layers in Cognos RS
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PH21885 CLOUD MOBILE REDIRECT ISSUE WHEN USING IBMID/W3ID

When connecting to mobile from a cloud instance using the IBMid /W3id authentication we see odd behaviours in the way mobile redirects the user. Logs have been attached for further review by Brock. 1. Download the mobile app on any device2. Try co...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration