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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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Simple member-driven calculations in Dashboards

Currently we are able to create calculations in dashboards based on measures. This is fine if I'd like to know "Revenue - Product Costs". But what about "2012-2011" or "% deviation of Q3/2012 to Q4/2012"? There's no way to create calculations base...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Scanning the content of uploaded Excel file

This subject has been brought to our attention by our clients, they need to make sure uploaded files are scanned for malicious scripts or codes. We deal with many banks and its part of the audit.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support of .svg Images in Reports in PDF and Excel Format

Currently the .svg graphics/images are not displayed in the reports as pdf and Excel - Tested with CA11.0.9 (IBM Case TS001418175)
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add/Enable XQE profiling to Log My Session

We have a need to look into report/dataset performance problems in our production environment. For this we intend to use Dynamic Query Analyzer to analyze log files generated by Cognos Analytics. Currently these log files requires to be turned on ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

ParamDisplayValue() doesn't display when a default is set and the report is sent over a schedule

Our product reports use in-report value prompts. when configuring the value prompt, we are setting the Use Value and the Display Value. For some prompts we then set a default value for the Use Value. We are then trying to use a ParamDisplayValue()...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show contents of all cells in a Dashboard Table

In a dashboard table (list) items that are repeated from row to row will not display if the prior column has repeating values for the same two rows. When this happens in the middle of the row it can require scrolling to find what the displayed val...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Password Protected for Excel or CSV Schedules

We have the requirement that the excel or CSV report output should password protection
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Provide datasource name as a package property

Provide the ability for a user to view the package datasource name from the package properties within Team / Group Content.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio capabilty to rerun a failed report automatically

We have a daily event that runs a job containing many reports. This event is kicked out by a trigger. There are sporadic instances when the job runs and one report may fail. It would be nice to have a 'task' that could rerun a failed report in a job.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Common Customizable Header Above the Dashboard Tabs

At the moment within a dashboard we don't have an out of box option to add a common header on top of the tabs of the dashoard. We should have a common header or also ability to edit to add tab specific conents but the main thing is it should be ab...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted