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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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How to restrict some user 's permission to create custom SQL in report studio but still let the user run existing reports containing custom SQL

We are about to upgrade cognos from 10.2.1 to Cognos Analytics 11.1.3, and plan to give most user capability to access report studio, but we don't want to provide all of them permission to write custom SQL inside report studio, also we want most u...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Refresh button for Data Module Source

Today it's very complicated to update source table in data module. For example we have an Excel file, which structure has been changed (added column). To update the Excel in Data Module we have to reimport the file through source view again. Even ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

User should be able to add customized tiles on the welcome page

CFIA has been using Cognos since 2008 and the users start liking Congos 11.1.x especially Cognos 11.1.4. The welcome page is modern and seems easily to be able to customized. But in fact the users won't be able to add the tiles that they need. If ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Hide legend titles

We want to hide the titles in legends, we don't want the legend titles to show
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Simplify fixes and enhancements to be installed and onfigured as a patch or fix pack, not as the entire version

In the last two upgrades it has been very time consuming and frustrating to apply the product and then test and then if issue install and configure the next in all instances being a distributed env. We have a total of 45 most of them in the webser...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Capability to import and use customized Visualization in Cognos Dashboard and Story

Idea is to get imported customized visualizations used in Cognos Dashboard. As of now we have limited set of Visualizations for Dashboard and stories. It would be good , if it is possible to use uploaded visualization in dashboarding and stories a...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Exploration - Relationship Diagram Times Out

When an exploration relationship takes too long, it will throw a timeout error after exactly 120 seconds: "Your request to load the relationship diagram timed out". This prevents users from being able to see the Starting Points and derive insight ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Expand the PKI

This is available in Qlikview. Whenever I need to expand an indicator, there is no way to do it.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Please Certify for Oracle 19c

Please Certify for Oracle 19c as this is needed as soon as possible for our customer upgrades.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Readd the ability to hide an email attachment which is available in Cognos Business Analytics V 10.2.2

In Cognos Business Analytics Version 10.2.2 has the ability to hide the Attach the report checkbox in the set the emails options GUI. In C11 this ability has been removed. Please see the following IBM link which shows how to hide the “Attach the r...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 12 Delivered