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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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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

gnerate alert when report output is not created on file system

When a scheduled job or interactive report is ran and the output is set to file system if the output is not generated or written to the file system there is no notification or alert of an issue.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add back Product Language "Slovak" in Cognos Analytis 11.0.13, 11.1* and above

The Cognos Analytics 11.0.13 and 11.1* no longer provide Slovak product language. This is an issue for user who do need their mother language to use the product when their English language is not strong enough. This might cause lose of customer in...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Advanced query hint to use 'Group By' instead of 'Distinct' in SQL

In some cases, we would need an advanced query hint to use “Group By” instead of “Distinct” in the SQL per report or per query tree. We are aware of the DQM query property “performance.convertGroupByToDistinct” which is set to “true” by default (f...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Include process ID in past activities information in Cognos Administration

The Current Activities view in Cognos Administration includes a bunch of helpful information for troubleshooting including the process ID (PID). With the PID we are able to trace that process to the Cognos server and if we cancel the process in Co...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Recently used packages are not shown when selecting a package

Recently used packages are not shown when selecting a package, that was available in 10.2.2 but not in CA11.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard

Custom sorting by the column not selected for the chart is not possible in the dashboard, like date was selected for Axis, but to make sorting by sort key is not possible
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Integrate Motio PI in the Cognos Administration GUI

with release version Cognos Analytics 11.1 Motion Pi is also delivered for use. It would be nice if Motio PI will be integrated in the cognos administration console.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Be able to add data security to uploaded files

Be able to add data security to uploaded files: in some cases when uplaoded files get a more official status (like uploaded targets for sales reps or budget data for accounts), you want to be able to limit the access to these uploaded files like y...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unsupported Browser Version Warning Pop-up

There should be a pop up message that tells the user they are using an unsupported browser version and that some features may not work as intended, especially on the trial and cloud versions.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration