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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:


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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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Include default font with slashed zero

We had a customer ask us to add a custom font because all of the included options did not offer a slashed zero. I was able to add the custom font, but we were surprised that of all the Cognos included options, none of them included a font that off...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Multi select drop down filter like MS Excel

Currently when user looks for multi select prompts, we have only check box and List drop down available. It would be good to have option to have drop down Multi select feature similar to MS Excel to select multiple values.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Implement Save to filesystem when running report interactively in background in Cognos Analytics

Implement Save to filesystem when running report interactively in background in Cognos Analytics
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support InfoSphere DataStage 11.3 on Windows 10

Bank of Canada is planning to upgrade all Windows platform to Windows 10 by the end of year. The DataStage client tools currently are not supported on Windows 10. This limitation will have impact to the Windows upgrade project.
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Creating new batch service

Hi Team, We would like to have 2 batch services set up for Cognos Controller on Cloud to run the 2 consolidations together which we already have a set up in on-prem environment and we would like to have the same on IBM cloud.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics Cloud On Demand Disabling Admin Access to Standerd user

Hi, We have purchased premium and Stranded users of Cognos Analytics Cloud on demand 12.0.1 version. I have created users who need to run dashboard and reports. I created this user as a Standard user. Once i logging from this user i can see,he is ...
about 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

FastMap parallelism in uploading data must be managed internally by the product with no actions by the user

Actually if the user wants to upload data files in parallel he has to start multiple uploads instances. The request is that the product takes one data file prepared by the user, and manages the parallelism internally, starting more threads so gett...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Full Support for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 15

Right now we are using Cognos Analytics on a SLES 12 SP5 OS. SLES 12 has EOS in 2024 and we need to migrate to SLES 15 (SP4 or newer). Right now the "Cognos Analytics Server" and the "Cognos Software Development Kit" are not supported on SLES 1...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

PAW View Export To Excel - Dimension Headers Not Applied Correctly

When exporting to excel from a PAW view, if there are multiple dimensions stacked in the columns, you do not get see the dimension name next to the dimension in the column stacked due to the way the export occurs... In prior versions no dimension ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

OIDC certificate cache removed

After a certificate was updated on the ADFS server, Cognos Analytics had to be restarted before it would accept the certificate because certificate authority certs last so long that is no need to update the intermediate and root certificates in th...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration