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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,


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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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Jobs: add load dataset step

Ability to add a load dataset step to a job
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

"Add me to the Alert list" functionality missing in Cognos Analytics

With Cognos 10.2.x Users could subscribe to Alerts occurring in regards to Agents using the "Add me to the Alert list" feature in the More... Dialogue of an Agent. With Cognos Analytics this functionality can only be accessed if Cognos Connection ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automate the import of themes and extensions

In order to have a fully automated deployment of a Cognos Analytics environment, we need a functionality that would allow us to automatically import a Cognos theme or extension. Currently, the import for a theme or extension can be done only thoug...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add the LogviewV2 utility back in CA 11.x to read server logs

Can't seem to find a CA equivalent to the logviewV2 utility that was bundled with Cognos 10.X. My understanding is that log viewer was an internal application that wasn't meant to be integrated into Cognos. It was a tool for IBM dev/support that w...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

non-proportional fonts

When developing a complex expression for a data item or a filter (using CASE, OR, etc.) the code can become difficult to read because text on similar lines of code does not align well. This is because the font used ("IBM Plex Sans", Helvetica, Tah...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Adding group permissions for use in customized extensions

We need the possibility like in version 12.0.0 to limiting extensions to specific roles and groups in the actual LTS Version 11.2.4. For the Version 12.0.0 this is described here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/blogs/ti...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Add back Product Language "Slovak" in Cognos Analytis 11.0.13, 11.1* and above

The Cognos Analytics 11.0.13 and 11.1* no longer provide Slovak product language. This is an issue for user who do need their mother language to use the product when their English language is not strong enough. This might cause lose of customer in...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Availability to see if someone else is editing the same content

Currently there is no prevention of parallel editing of objects by different users - availability to ‘lock’ content from editing or a mark on an object if someone else is also editing would be useful.
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

DQM Query Execution Time Limit

Implement a governor to limit the execution time of DQM Queries, since currently there is no governor that applies to DQM Queries, as per documentation and feedback from PMR 07802,499,000. The customer VF Services (9446150) has a business requirem...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Administrative function to view users logged on

Ability for the administrator to view who is logged on to the system.Can currently see reports running and scheduled but can not see the users. One reason would be to see and notify users that they system needs maintenance.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration