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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:


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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


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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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prompt select and search option of search

I want to set the default option for search example "contains.." not "starts with.."
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Not able to add data sets to Job or Event Studio

Unlike reports/jobs, data sets do not allow to be added to jobs. So also data sets do not allow to be scheduled using Event Studio. Please provide the functionality, or an alternate option (other than time/trigger based scheduling). Case number re...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Ability to email notifications to users

Provide external notification of report completions, via outlook (email) or other notification of choice.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

wordpress, drupal, cpanel, etc plugins

With the push to provide easier mechanisms to share Cognos content, I would like IBM to develop plugins for popular website, CRM, and e-commerce providers. The plugin should allow the website owner to define the credentials used, the target conten...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Data module - Import from & Export to Clipboard options like Copy & Open from Clipboard options for Report

Looking for a feature where we can Import from & Export to Clipboard options for Cognos Analytics Data module like Copy & Open from Clipboard options for Report It would be helpful to edit the Data module in code. As far as Data module is ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expand existing Theme Elements

Currently Themes only allow to modify the UI with some basic parameters - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ag_manage.doc/c_ag_manage_themes.html In addition you can create extensions to apply further ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Enhancements to Event Agent (aka Studio)

Hi, I have these enhancements points for Event Studio which is now called Event Agent. Points to enhance Event Agent: Ability to assign task name to something different than the inherited name. Ability to see all the selected prompt values without...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Bursting Reports to Email from Cognos on Demand

Bursting reports that are migrated to Cognos on Cloud no longer burst to email recipients. This is an extremely useful future when generating reports for sales teams where the region/area of the report does not change but the person responsible do...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Not under consideration

Rename folder names on home page

Hello There, We are looking for a way to rename the 'Team content' and 'My content' folders on Cognos Analytics home page. This feature is available on earlier Cognos 10.X versions.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration