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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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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

Advanced/relative date filter

Add on a dashboard and report prompt the ability to filter for a date or date range using the following: today, yesterday, this week/month/year, last x days/week/month/year, fiscal filtering. This type of control or functionality is a staple of ma...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 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

SAP BW as authentication provider using Message Server Logon

The SAP BW system consists of several application servers and High Availability / Loadbalancing is achieved using the message server as managing instance on top of them. In Cognos Analytics the data access can be configured via the SAP message ser...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

no "ok" button when changing properties on a report

There is no "ok" button after changing properties on a report. You aren't sure if the change was applied after it's made. The button existed in Cognos 10.2. Sometimes the change is applied and sometimes not. You have to go back and check.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatically Populate Values in Select and Search Prompt

Add a property to the Select and Search prompt to "Automatically Populate Values"
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow passing "Extra Data" item on drill-through definition from 11.1 Visualizations

User wants to see [Product Line] in a visualization so that users see the name of the product line. For performance purposes, we want to pass [Product Line Code] on drill-through. Currently the only way to do this is to nest the dimensional inform...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to migrate Dynamic Cubes between environments

Currently, it is not possible to migrate a Dynamic Cube from a Development / Test environment to a Production environment (other than Package and associated content). The cube model is attached to the data source, which is likely the reason this f...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to restrict rows returned when testing joins

In Framework Manager there is the option to restrict the amount of data returned in a Query Subject (default is 20 rows). Can a similar option be added to data modules?
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted