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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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Search option in Cognos Active report

There is request from users all the time to provide search feature to find the requested value in long list in the IBM Cognos active report. We built several dashboard for multiple customers with Active report which are utilized in Desktop and Mob...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

All User Prompt Values

We desperately need to know ALL the prompts that are being submitted by users - the Admin interface shows the background processes, but user interactive reports aren't available. I tried RSVP.PARAMETERS.LOG=true in hopes of parsing cogipf_paramete...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Assistant / Ask a question in Reporting

The assistant functionality where questions can be asked is readily available in Dashboards & Explorations. This RFE is to add similar functionality in reporting. We have a use-case where business-oriented people, that would only occasionally ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Dashboard crosstab needs to aggregate properly

When using crosstab with calculated columns (percentage) and users nests rows, the subtotals are shown as NaN% I would expect the crosstab to handle the order of calculation by default where it calculated the inner column/first subtotal first and ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Edit Font Size of Data Labels in a Dashboard

Currently the data labels in a dashboard default to a font size which can be very small and hard for users to read. It would be very helpful to have the ability to change the font size of the data labels in addition to being able to toggle them of...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Multiple Sessions of CA in Edge Browser

In IE, it is possible to open multiple sessions of CA, for instance a CA Development env, Test env, and Production env all at the same time. When attempting to do so with Edge, a cookie error results. Not sure if the architecture of Edge will perm...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Not under consideration

Logoff URL Improvements

There are two scenarios that don't seem to be currently supported in relation to the logoff URL that would be very beneficial. If a session times out due to inactivity, it doesn't appear to redirect to the logoff URL, if configured, which can lead...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Tree Prompt Control - Highlight Selected Members

Once selected tree prompt values are highlighted and submitted, they no longer appear highlighted. This is confusing to users when they select multiple members/hierarchies and do not remember all the values selected.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extended Logging Information for IBM Cognos Administration

Customers would like to be able to directly monitor CPU and Memory Usage of BIBus Processes. It should furthermore be identifiable which user is running the current task and what the tasks resource consumption is. BiBus1 (PID, Assigned to CPU 0, c...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Client side rendering of interactive reporting

Client side rendering of interactive reporting will enhance the user experience a lot. It will also reduce the load on the Cognos servers 1. Faster sorting (and other operations) where no new data retrievals are needed and the output is only sorte...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release