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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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Ability to add comments/hints to report elements in report author

While developing a report, Funcional requirements, meeting’s annotations and such are documented, but it would much easier and better documented if present in the report’s specification. This resource is also more important if client uses any kind...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Enable scheduling when using smartcard and kerberos constrained delegation

Using smartcard to login to CA means no username/pwd are stored in the system. This is a problem when scheduling. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). Bottom line: a system configured with kerberos constrained dele...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Login portal with prefered Product and content language using a parameterized URL

m_productLocale and m_contentLocale parameters doesn't work in Cognos 11. In 10.2.2, we can use the following URL to embedded in our web application.https://sde-bds/ibmcognos/cgi-bin/cognosisapi.dll?b_action=xts.run&m=portal/main.xts&m_pro...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expand Search in Data Module

When editing a data module, there is a search bar at the top of the source tree. When I type into that box, it returns only items that contain a match in the Label property. Sometimes it is desirable to be able to search for the name from the sour...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Custom template with attached package in CA

Hello, I want to make template with attachment package, because I use only one package and all the time, when I make new raport, so I have to choose this same package everytime.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IN TREE PROMPT WHEN THE CHECKBOX AGAINST ROOT NODE IS SELECTED THE CHILDRENNODES ARE NOT AUTO-SELECTED

We have a tree prompts in which we are showing product/geography which has more than one level. When user selects All Level (Root Level) and all Level 1 options to get the total value at Product/Geography level the value shown is getting doubled. ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ordering Table Names and Column Names in Data Modules

When working in framework manager, I am able to sort columns alphabetically which makes the metadata easier for everyone to use. It looks like there isn't a way to do this in Data Modules in CA currently.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add Format option to Run Options in Cognos Analytics 11 Report Authoring

Add Format option in the report authoring tools Run Options dialog so user can View Tabular Data in format other than HTML
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

crosstab freeze options

I am using crosstab a my report. Currently we can freeze column header on report by right clicking on output and click on Freeze Column & Row headings option. However requirement from user is that they want to have both freezed column and Row ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

retrieve the list of email recipients that were distributed by one of the job burst's reports.

Currently, retrieving the list of email recipients for each report within a job from the audit database is not feasible. Therefore, we are seeking a modification to the audit database in order to enable this retrieval.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration