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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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Missing job step details in my activities and schedules tab for end users

Hello, as end user I dont have anymore information about what is being executed as a step (report) inside a job. When I run a job and go in my activities and schedules in "current" tab, I see only the job running without information how many repor...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove unsuccessful login entries labeled as "Not Available" from Cognos Analytics audit package

When we tried to find out the logon information using the audit package in Cognos Analytics then we noticed that the user name details are showing as 'not available' in the audit report. Detailed explanation: When the logging level for ContentMana...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Keep HTML view of report in browser when changing it to Excel version

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, users ran a report with prompts on the report page with the List in HTML. From the Viewer they would select Run > Excel, which would open a separate window browser Window for the Excel download. The original Cognos V...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

I would like to preserve the new line character(\n) when uploading data files.

When I upload an Excel or CSV data file to Cognos Analytics, new line characters contained within text columns are automatically converted to space characters. On the other hand, new line characters included in database text columns are handled wi...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Option to select "Open In New window" for Dashboard Drill Down

While creating drill down in dashboard, designer do not have option to select "Open in new window". this option is not available in dashboard, report drill down has this option and designer check bob to "Open in new window". Opened ticket with IBM...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Copy/Paste Reports (Deployment)

When deploying a report from one environment to another, using copy/paste to overwrite a report breaks report views and removes the schedule. Prior to Cognos 10.20 this never occurred. We'd like the old functionality back. A workaround currently e...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel Spreadsheet Tabs when using Microsoft plug-in

When using the Cognos Microsoft plug-in to run a report via Excel, the report output is always to a single tab in the spreadsheet even when the report has pages setup to do tabs. We would like the Excel Spreadsheet to be generated with separate tabs.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New FunctionalityTo Run Cognos Schedules For A Given Period Of Time After Outages

A regular question from our end users whenever there is a Cognos outage and they don't receive their schedule reports is, "Will I get them eventually?". However, since those reports were never loaded into the scheduling queue because of the outage...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Dashboard: Coloring values based on a condition

In Dashboards i would like the ability to color values based on a condition. Eg. [Margin]<0.80=Red , 0.81<[Margin]<1 = Yellow , [Margin]>1 = Green. Maybe the feature: Conditional formatiing in Report Studio could be used somehow. This ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delete vs Write vs Full

Within the permissions of an object, we now have a hierarchy of security -- Read, Run, Write and Full. In previous versions, we had 5 permissions - Read, Execute, Traverse, Write and Policy (still kind of have this in the admin piece) but... In al...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration