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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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Global setting to set select or all reports default to HTML or Excel.

Global setting to set select or all reports default to HTML or Excel.Provide the Admin option to globally set/push report output settings to set as HTML or Excel. This feature would allow to set a single report or all reports. Targeted for Cognos ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos viewer portlets cannot communicate in third party portals

When deploying portlets to a Websphere portal, we cannot set up inter-portlet communication between the viewer portlets. According to Greg McDonald, this is not currently the supported. A workaround was suggested of creating a cognos page with the...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unable to create a datasource that has the same name of Cognos group

Unable to create a datasource name with the same name within a Cognos group or vice versa
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ReportStudio/WorkspaceAdv ReportLayout expression to support coalesce function to handle NULL string concatenation problems

FM/ReportStudio/WorkspaceAdv supports COALESCE function to handle NULL string values. This is useful when an output string is concatenation of several items and some of the items could be NULL. In most cases we want to handle NULL string values as...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Portal - Saving Reports, Email Scheduling, Setting Prompts

Provide a Prompt page option to allow consolidating the key Save, Schedule, Email, and Set Prompts options. ORProvide an Icon that consolidates the key options listed above into a single Icon. Targeted to Cognos Connection Portal
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drag & Drop

Provide a Drag & Drop prompt in the "Search & Select" prompt. This prompt enables Add Fields / Remove Fields via dragging & dropping. Better UI Experience
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to reformat check boxes

Provide additional configuration options on Check Box prompts. Better UI Experience
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multiple Sorting

Provide the option to sort on Multiple Rows. Currently only allows for a single Row sort.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Conditional style - "New Conditional style" behave consistently

Conditional style - make "New Conditional style" behave consistently
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

starting Cognos Workspace Advanced using an url with filter parameters

starting Cognos Workspace Advanced using an url with filter parameters
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration