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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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Extract Data signon UserName from Data source connections

We want to get the user id that Cognos uses to connect to the reporting Database. I am able to get the credentials from the data source sign on (doing a search on dataSourceSignon) However it is in encrypted form. This is important for management ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom folders should be included in OPEN and SAVE dialog boxes...

If you are customizing a cognos analytics portal and remove the teamfolder to simplify the handling for the enduser (Extensions), there is a problem with accessing things between two customfolders. Example: Create a Reportview in one cutomfol...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

controller datasource

Provide support for Controller datasource in Cognos analytics
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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

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

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

Unable to add local ClassName with a "." (decimal/dot) ex: DIV.clsListView

Prompt control value box class border customization does not work with border around the Checkbox List View... After investigation found that it uses a different class called "clsListView" and am able to do some customization - but not with the ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Unable to change Active Report package from Properties

We are unable to change the package of an Active Report from outside Active Report (from the Properties of the Active report), like we could do in Cognos 10.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

AODA - Avoid using tables to format text documents in columns unless the table can be linearized

The message was generated from Dynamic Assessment Plugin which is a tool to check accessibility. The tool is recommending not to use tables to format text in columns as the table cannot be linearized which is affecting WCAG section 1.3.2. However,...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The capability for blank search for packages is lost in Cognos 11

Please refer to TS002417796 for the details: The search lost the capability for searching "Packages" in CA11.1.2: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hi Tristan, Thanks for getting back to me and taking care of this issue. As I indicated in...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration