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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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Option to collapse all queries

In bigger reports with a lot of queries (>10), the queries a shown by default unfolded. In these situations you want the same collapse options as in the data source to collapse all unfolded item once.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve "Create custom filter/filter condition" window by bringing back scrollbar and multiselect

The "create custom filter" is improved a lot, however. The choice to replace the scrollbar into a page up/down button is in our experience clumsy. When you have a list with for example customer names, using the page down button to navigate through...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

View specified version history directly from the job for each report

When a scheduled job has not run, it’s too complicated to view the reason behind it. First you have to find out the location of the report (report path is not visible in the job). Next step is to go to the report properties and choose for “view ve...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Open Powerplay reports into Analysis Studio is deprecated between versions 11.1.1 to 11.1.5

Cognos 11.1.1 had the feature where it was opening any powerplay reports into Analysis studio which is not available in Cognos 11.1.5
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to open more than one job simultaneously

A huge benefit of Cognos Analytics is the ability to open more than one report simultaneously. This isn't working for jobs, so it's difficult when you want compare jobs to each other.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Directory Security

Under 'Team Content' There are various modules that should be limited to certain groups of people within the organization. Following the directions for version 11.1.5 of Cognos Analytics release ; using specific role to limit folders is a great fe...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Save to Cloud Option not available in Portal Pages in C11.1.5

When I navigate from Team Content to the respective report folder , i see the option "Save to Cloud " when i do a right click > Run in the background > Advanced > Delivery. However, when i navigate through the Portal tab and click on the ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The context menu entries should always be displayed in the same order, whether in the "Manage" or "Team content" area.

In the "Manage" area the entry "Properties" is displayed at the top, while in the "Team Content" area the properties are displayed at the bottom, as in many other programs. Unusual is especially that you find the function "Delete" at the bottom, w...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Remove scroll bar within summary table in Dashboard

When Microsoft Edge is used, some of the Summary charts in Dashboard is showing scrollbar which caused UI to be not standardize. The only workaround for this is to resize the charts which is not the ideal way as the object become bigger and does n...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make Cognos compatible with Open JDK

Since Oracle got bought out many companies are moving away from Oracle JDK to Open JDK. So IBM should make cognos compatible with open jdk.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration