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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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Interactive Mode context menu added to extension system

I would like the context menu that pops up when clicking on a report object to be included in the extension system. This should also allow an admin to the individual options as features in people/customization. This would make the UI more consiste...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Highlight of last selected report

Background-We have developed reports in Cognos 11.0.12. We have created folders and grouped the UI dashboards in these folders. When we click Team content >> Folder , list of reports are visible.Help needed-We would like to know using any co...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Data Module Split to accept non-printable characters such as TAB or Carriage return

Allow Data Module Split to accept non-printable characters such as TAB or Carriage return Currently only printable characters are accepted.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

add Contributor packages in recent items list

Contributor packages not listed in recent items - Cases - IBM Support when we open a Contributor package in the CA portal, the package does not appear in the recent items list as it happens with other packages in CA. Most of our users only use the...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Flexible management of restricting user’s rights

For instance if some employee is on vacation, and according internal rules I have to restrict user’s rights to Cognos now it is not so easy if it is possible at all.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Show Verification Page after selecting to run a job

After choosing the Run option on a job, it runs automatically instead of showing a verification page with job details.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add option (functions) to be able to get a list of PAL subsets (private/public) and load it into query item

One of the great benefit of our BI application with CA11 for end users is the option to reuse SUBSETS (public/private) defined in PAL by end users (private subsets reflecting basically custom end user roll ups) or subsets defined by development te...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

JavaScript - disable value prompt control does not work

IBM API code does not work with prompt disable(custom control) and this needs to include within new development not a defect issue. It worked in 10.2.2. It was advised by case TS001612649 to create RFE.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Top Ten Insurance Report for Executives to Samples

You guys created the attached PDF. It would be great if there were actual sample reports that we could reference to create the against our data.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Setting a default or preferred Data Source Connection per role

Most of our customers has more than one data source for the same package. For example, a connection to the realtime production database and a connection to the test database. Everytime you make a new report you'll receive a data connection prompt....
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration