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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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Separate setting for compression of PDF reports vs Active reports

As it is now, there is a setting that determine the number of megabytes an attachement can be before it is compressed. This is on the delivery, batch and report server. However, the same setting is used for sending mobile reports to mobile devices...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Cube Update Date and Curren Period Display in Cognos Workspace advanced

Users would like to see Current Period and Cube refresh date in reports created in Cognos workspace advanced.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom SQL updating Existing Query Subject with new changes to the SQL

Hello Team, We have found some new issue in 11.1.7 , in fact we observed this in 11.1.6 as well. The issue is with updating the SQL query in Cognos report queries using Custom SQL option. When users are trying to update their queries using custom ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Newer OpenSSL support , at least 1.1.0

Support newer OpenSSL for Cognos 1.1.x and Cognos 1.2.x. At least newer than v1.1.0
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need a flag to enable or disable Legacy administration console

currently if you are part of administrator role you have access to legacy administration console portal. However most of the features needed are available under Manage from 11.1.5 onwards so we want to hide this legacy console from our users.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display Input Text and Options from Select and Search Prompt

Add functionality to display what the search terms typed by the user the and the search options chosen from a Select and Search Prompt.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Spell Number Function

We need a way to turn numbers into words. For example, "2600" would become "Twenty-Six Hundred" We've got reporting requirements to print a check image and we need words for numbers on the dollars line.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search button is not working for custom maps in Map Visulaization

Search button in the map visualization is not working for custom maps. Currently, we have state name or provinces as Cincinnati2 vs Cincinnati and the Map is not able to recognize the province .
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos Lifecycle Manager 11.1 should have flexibility to compare csv and excel reports

We are migrating our Cognos 10.2 to 11.1.x version so to get all the reports aligned properly we used IBM Lifecycle Manager to compare reports. As we know that Lifecycle Manager 11+ version do not support formats like csv and excel so we have to m...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration