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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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Cognos Analytics

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Add LDAP Group Filters in Cognos Configuration

Please Allow us to Add LDAP Filter at Groups Level too. Currently, we are seeing all the Groups in LDAP which is slowing down the Cognos Login and Report Execution times, We have 10,000 Groups in LDAP and every time when user login to Cognos or pe...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

add permissions for a group or role in order to see a specific folder when logging in Cognos analytics

For example, folder A contains the reports and the folder B contains the package of the reports. We want that any users who belongs to a specific group or role come directly to folder A when connecting to Cognos via Gateway URI and that they are n...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show complete path when searching package content in Reporting

Search package content in Reporting only shows the field name. If a field with the same name exists under different paths (e.g. person number) the user cannot decide ad hoc which field to take. Display of the whole path or at least the parent quer...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard widgets as tiles on welcome page

CA Administrators can customize the welcome page by creating extensions and upload them. Additional skills and capabilities are required. For end-users who just want to customize their welcome page with a few information from different dashboards ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics backup

Hello, In Cognos Analytics, there is an option to export the entire content store. Using this option, when you import, you only have the option to import the entire content store. Can we have an option to specify the Folder\Reports to import inste...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide option to exclude types of activities from Past Activities

It would be very helpful to have a way to exclude certain types of activities (such as Event Studio agent runs) from the "Past Activities" view of Administration (either in the C10 "Cognos Connection" Administration screens and/or the new C11 "Act...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to easily see all filters within framework model in framework manager

I would like to have the ability to see filters that have been defined within a framework model instead of having to go into each query subject. I would like to have the option to view all filters that are currently defined within the model and wh...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data format in Datamodules

I am looking for a feature to change the dataformat of the columns in Data modules.For example: I have create a calculation and it's default format is Decimal. I want to change the format to percentage.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Process Cognos Analytics report output further as input in Data Module

Purpose is usually very simple planning or easy implementation of data from an additional source. Workaround is file export, external processing & import as uploaded file (last even without a native scheduling). Transferring existing business ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Future consideration

Exporting/Downloading Uploaded Data Files

Add the option to be able to export/download previously uploaded files from Cognos Analytics.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration