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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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Snowflake Native Functions in FM

Snowflake database native functions are not available by default in FM installations due to that we are not able to use snowflake-related functions in report authoring, we have to only common functions which are limited sometimes. installation und...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Functionality already exists

Limit the no.of report output versions that can be saved in content store

our user community is new to cognos as we are migrating from business objects to cognos. All of the report output versions are saved in BO for some reason in the BO file system. we would like to limit that capability in cognos so users are forced ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Disable default IBM alerts

With Cognos Analytics 11.1.4 a new feature was presented: Alert messages. There are two types. After every login default IBM "What's new" banners apper and admins are able to enable own messages. There should be a configuration parameter or switch...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Add Missing Report Outout Formats to Fully Interactive Viewer

When viewing a Fully Interactive report, allow the user to run the report in Excel, Excel Data and CSV formats.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

LOGOUT RE-DIRECT URL NOT BEING USED WHEN THE SESSION TIMES OUT.

When a Cognos session times out due to inactivity, the logout flow doesn’t invoke the “Logout redirect URL”, it goes straight to the login screen.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Functionality already exists

Ability to hide/disable folder delete permissions without removing write permissions

Problem statement: In Cognos 11, a user with either the Professional Author or Business Author role can delete the entity folder for their company. These users have write permissions to the entity specific folder since they should be able to creat...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Enable HTTP/2 protocol feature in Cognos Analytics WLP

It should be possible to enable HTTP/2 in the provided WLP for Cognos Analytics - Liberty supports this feature; HTTP/2 supports queries multiplexing, headers compression, priority and more intelligent packet streaming management. This results in ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Image browsing in the Cloud version of Report Authoring

When images are uploaded via ticket to the standard CAoC ../images folder, they cannot be browsed in the report author tool as WevDAV is not enabled/available for this folder. Please can WebDAV be made available to this folder.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Restrict Exploration from specific Packages

Provide the ability to restrict access to specific packages with the Exploration tool, as allowed with with tools, such as Report Studio. Not all packages may be designed for optimal use with Exploration. The users may need access to one package f...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Access data set filters in Design View

When you are in Design View in a data set you don't have access to see what the filters are on the data set or to change them, you need to go into Preview View which could take a long time to load if you have a large data set.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists