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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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Add random delay to triggered schedules - avoid report storm when triggered

Our ETL process issues triggers that are used for scheduling reports and events. What is happening, is that more and more objects are monitoring these triggers to fire processes such as reports and events. The trouble is that we are starting to ha...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Orientation / Portrait : possibility to dynamically change without duplicating report pages

Today when we want to allow the user to launch the report either in portrait or landscape, we need to create our own prompt and to duplicate report pages in Report Studio to apply 2 different PDF PAGE Setup on each of our 2 report pages.Would it b...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Vertical fit to one page

Hello, In report studio, there is an option to avoid horizontal pagination.We would like to have the same option for vertical pagination.This would force the report to fit to one page (reducing automatically table's width).Thank you in advance
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display the selected filters

In a dashboard the selection is not visible, one has to hover over one of the filter icons included in any of the PKIs, to be able to know that filters have been made. This feature already exits in QlikView.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Serbian product language

In addition to the many languages you can set in Cognos 11 please add the serbian language too.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to show blank or custom string instead of #!Security in studios when accessing a secured Transformer cube

If a Transformer cube has custom views, and if some users are part of several custom views, there may be situations where users have rights to see some categories from some dimensions, but not the data at the intersection. In such a case, Analysis...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a function to determine if we are in the last row of a list or a crosstab

Ability to determine with a report function if we are in the last row of a list or a crosstab in order to apply specific layout (color coding).
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide "Create a new job" in PowerPlay Report context menu

No description provided
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to use Horizontal Page Count in Conditionnal Style

We would like to have the possibility to use the Horizontal Page Count function in conditionnal style.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to expand a tree prompt element even if some elements are breaking hierarchy order

When a user has acces to the total of the hierarchy then doesn't have acces to the next level but has acces to the following level, elements from this level are not accessible from the tree prompt with rootMembers. As the total hierarchy display n...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration