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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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Email notification: Add an option "on who should be notified when a report fails and also to include the report execution status like Success/Fail in the notification"

Currently, we don't get any notification when a report (either scheduled or non scheduled report like for batch mode report execution) fails so it should be good if we can have "add an option on who should be notified when a report fails for the e...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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.
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.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Burting Options per role/group/user: Run in parallel, Use query prefetching, Maximum key limit

Those using burst options can unintentionally take up all Cognos resources by enabling running bursted reports in parallel and setting the maximum key limit to 0. Administrators should have the ability to restrict these burst options from being se...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 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

Add Favourite Favorite item to navigation menu

I require a quick way to access my favourite reports, dashbards, folders. Currently I have to create shortcuts in my content, or search etc. this is clunky. On the home menu, that has Home, New, Upload Data, Recent, there should be a 'Favourites' ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future 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

Add support for UUID type from postgreSQL database.

Add support for UUID type from postgreSQL database.Cf. case TS001007774.
over 6 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

Show dependacy on a data module

Client would like to have a feature in the product that shows the dependency on a data module, which reports and dashboards it is used in.A a data module used in dashboards or reports is deleted, the dashboard fails to render successfully. To avoi...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration