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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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Calculate distance using geospatial objects

We want to be able to calculate who travels the longest distance using postal codes and who travels the longest distance most frequently.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance no data handling for cross tab

Crosstab cannot be hide totally according to empty result set returned from the query. The suppression feature can archive it with side effect that rows and columns have to be suppressed individually which is not desired.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics permit/denied Job creation

currently all users can create jobs, I wish I could decide, as in many other Cognos tools, to whom to give or to whom to remove this functionality . No workaround. Need to create a capabilities to manage this functionality. User can create a Job w...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Timestamp Missing in popup window for cognos Dynamic Cube Error PMR No 10114,7TD,000

Timestamp Missing in popup window for cognos Dynamic Cube Error PMR No 10114,7TD,000
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompt User for Credentials if Database Login Fails

We report off of an Oracle database using database credentials that expire after 30 days. When you run a report, you get prompted for a user name and password along with a checkbox that says “Remember my user ID and password when connecting to t...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Database column description for QuickInfo

Most database tables contain descriptions for their columns. These descriptions should be accessible for Cognos to fill the QuickInfo-Box for model users.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Formatting capabilities for Calculated Time Members

I have created couple of new Calculated members in the time dimension called MTD%Inc and YTD%Inc which calculated the percentage increase in Sales over current year and last year. Which is a percentage value. I would like to change the data format...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PH21885 CLOUD MOBILE REDIRECT ISSUE WHEN USING IBMID/W3ID

When connecting to mobile from a cloud instance using the IBMid /W3id authentication we see odd behaviours in the way mobile redirects the user. Logs have been attached for further review by Brock. 1. Download the mobile app on any device2. Try co...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

(solved) Be able to upload images to Cloud multitenant, so I could use them in PDF/Excel/Share With Email outputs

(solved) In Cloud mutitenant, the images I use in Report works with HTML only. It won't work in PDF/Excel/Share With Email outputs. It's because the rendering occurs inside the Report Server. The images have to be located inside the Report Server....
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Need better axis label formatting control

Report authors are unable to control the border around the axis labels.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration