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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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Null Order

The null order of the CA reports is first when Cognos connect Db2, but the order is last when Cognos connect Netezza. I want to be able to select whether null is the first or last for each report.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search results remain on the screen

In home screen, when client select "Team Contents Folder" and search the report, the result is displayed. Once we go to another screen and return to the report selection screen again, the search results are displayed. At that time, we want to be a...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use generic "From" emails for specific departments

One department within our organization would like emails for only their reports to come from a different email address than the Cognos default, and they do not want emails sent from one person/developer either.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Reintroduce the Proven Practice documents

IBM used to provide a number of proven practice documents that covered reporting, Admin, modelling etc. While the link to the webpage still exists in the on line documentation, the page is redirected to to an unrelated site. Documentation page - h...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Make field descriptions and screen tips also available for Analytics Users

We get more and more questions on the visibility of data lineage and data dictionary entries of data items in packages and data modules for analytics users for compliancy reasons. At this moment an author can see the description and screen tip of ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Non-Path Traversal for PDF viewer

Corporate Web Application Firewalls consider the use of path traversal syntax to be a security violation. Cognos 11.2.1 uses path traversal to render pdf reports interactively. This violates standard web security implementations.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 3 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 ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

need to force the "Team Content" show in a "list" view rather than the "tile" view.

we need to force the "Team Content" show in a "list" view rather than the "tile" view. Cognos 11.2 remembers the last option selected, and it presents it to the user. The "List" view must be called and overwrite any pre-existing view.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Provide security model for source access in data modules

When creating a new data module, a user is presented with sources that he can pull data from.A security model is required, to enable/disable users to use specific sources or a complete group of sources.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Use Measure String Elements grouping (group by for numeric data) in List, Cross Tabs, Charts PA as Source data

While using Planning Analytics Cube as source over REST API call, if we have a measure dimension with string elements or picklist elements these elements can also should be used as one of the virtual dimension to view the cube measure numeric elem...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration