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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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Enable 'take ownership' without having to give full permission

After importing content from onprem to cloud, all the ownership is set to the admin that did the import. Already had problems after that because of max upload restrictions of 500 Mb er user. Users that have write permissions should be able to take...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

More control over local processing

More control over where to process which part of a report: on database or local, make visible when the report is being processed locally (after run, on development). Alternative: Locally processed report runs must be more stable and reliable: a) S...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Preserve advanced settings in case of full clean install

Preserve Manage-UI advanced settings and Dispatcher advanced settings in case of full clean install (Content Store upgrade and fixpack installation)
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

dashboard filter greater than or less than

on dashboard filter is it possible to add a condition > greater than, < less than or >= and <=Thanks
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules

Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules only to FM packages. This seems like a severe limitation given that Data Sets and Data Modules are being pushed as one of the main new features in Cognos 11
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

SAP BW as authentication provider using Message Server Logon

The SAP BW system consists of several application servers and High Availability / Loadbalancing is achieved using the message server as managing instance on top of them. In Cognos Analytics the data access can be configured via the SAP message ser...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Dynamic tabs in reports based on page sets

As per CA 11.2.1 it is not possible to create a HTML report output based on a page set. RSV-VAL-0052 - cannot include pageset when report pages are viewed as tabs. implementing this feature would enable report authors to create dynamic tabbed repo...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Bookmark on Cognos PDF output

The output PDF file from Cognos has no option of creating a bookmark. Although this option is available in other applications.working in a proj where cognos pdf output is needed to be uploaded.The generated cognos pdf report needs to be uploaded i...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

View Active Advanced Settings

Currently when implementing advanced settings in the manage flyout, you must input the parameter, such as ContentApps.updateTargetObjectWhenOverwrite, and input a value, for example True. Once you have implemented this feature the only way to see ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Offer PowerPlay Studio with Cognos Analtyics on Cloud

Offer PowerPlay Studio with Cognos Analytics on Cloud.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists