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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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Search should be additional for content (all terms "anded")

when searching for content in the Cognos Analytics portal in 11.1.6 the behavior appears to be an "or" search. In other words if I search for A simple report name the search is executed on content as A [or] simple [or] report [or] name. This searc...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos reports need date/time

Cognos reports need date/time to be appended while saving to the file system.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add specific values tab for decimal values in custom filter dialog

In Cognos 10 Report Studio there was a specific values option in the custom filter dialog also for the decimal data type. In Cognos 11 it was not implemented as a separate tab for the decimal data type, only for integers. We have many users, that ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Looking for full support for Multi-Member Multi-Level Hierarchical Dimension data in Workspace Advanced.

Currently, the support for Multi-Member Multi-Level Hierarchical (TM1) Dimension data seems to be missing or limited to one member at a time in WA. We understand that IBM has committed to “Differences in Cognos Workspace Advanced will be bridged...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to hide the "hide summaries" icon from the List visualization TS003669098

My Customers will not be confused about this useless widget.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Windows server 2019 support

we are planning to upgrade WCA 3.5 to latest Watson Explorer Deep Analytics Edition 12.0.3.2, based on current IBM software compatibility report, this edition supports up to windows server 2016. However, based on MS, window server 2016 mainsteam s...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ParamDisplayValue output to have customizable delimiter other than ','

For example: Filter for US Presidents and the display value for ParamDisplayValue output format would be Donald, J Trump, Barrack,H Obama
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Failover Support to LDAP Provider

Customer wants to be able to add a second or third LDAP Server to an LDAP authentication source in IBM Cognos Configuration so an LDAP failure can be handled directly from Cognos.This requires in turn that the LDAP Provider receives Load Balancing...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

You can only jump from an executed WorkspaceAdvanced report into Report Studio

If a report designed in WSA is executed it should show the Workspace Advanced Icon in the menu in the upper right corner instead the Report Studio Icon and should jump to the WSA-Studio. Not every WSA consumer has the rights and the ability to wor...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Specify retention period to External Repository

With Filenet as external repository, Cognos Administrator doesn't seem to have any control over Retention period. Need a feature on Cognos to let the external repository know about the retention requirement at each report level.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration