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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,


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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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Transformer Data Source Signon loops when it should provide a detailed error message

Viewing the data in Transformer or attempting to build a PowerCube causes the Data Source Signon page to be displayed. User enters credentials and clicks OK. The signon dialog is displayed again and this loop continues. Requested Change.An error s...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Inclusion of missing area names for Kuwait

In Cognos version 11.0.12, for the country Kuwait , the list of master records with Area names for Map visualization is not exhaustive. Hence, the area names received from other source systems like SAP, are different from that of Cognos Map. As a ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Consumer-Root in Public Folder wthin Cognos-Office

On BI-Server there is a feature to restrict content browsing for Users in Public Folder: System.xml ...In Cognos-Office this feature is not aktice. User are able to browse the entire contents of Public Folder. This feature should be implemented in...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Excel Data Export should consider Framework Manager settings (e.g. currency)

The Excel data export functionality not only ignores the settings in the report (ok) but also from the model (not ok). Even if a currency is defined for a measure in the model, the export will use the currency symbol corresponding to the logon lan...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

On dashboard lists visualizations sort nulls at end of list.

When sorting a column on a dashboard list, provide the option to sort null values to the end of the list.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve auto-prompting for Data Modules

Auto-prompts seem to leverage the underlying data type of the table/database. That's fairly short-sighted since numeric types can be used to represent non-metric data. For example the year or the month number of a time table. It's perfectly valid ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Watson Scores Less Than 0.5

When conducting research on the sentiment of tweets, it would be helpful to be able to see the score for each tone even if it is below 0.5.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need glossary and lineage functionalities for visualization in Report

At CFIA we are doing a POC for an important project that requires to utilize the glossary and lineage capabilities from InfoSphere IGC in the Cognos reports. However, it seemed that the glossary and lineage functions are only available for the tab...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos not able to connect to LDAP using Domain Name with multiple A records

Cognos Analytics 11.0.x and 11.1.x have an issue with connecting to LDAP using domain name when the domain name is configured using DNS with multiple records. We are raising this enhancement request as per the recommendation from IBM support ana...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make File upload size role based so that administrators can have control over the upload limit

Currently our management wants to give file upload limit for external users and Internal users. More for Internal and less for externals - Cannot do that
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration