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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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Exploration - Relationship Diagram Times Out

When an exploration relationship takes too long, it will throw a timeout error after exactly 120 seconds: "Your request to load the relationship diagram timed out". This prevents users from being able to see the Starting Points and derive insight ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Support sqlnet encryption for content DB using oracle database

Cognos 11.1.1 with content manager data source as oracle database doesn't work when the db server side enables sqlnet encryption. Here is the server side sqlnet setting: SQLNET.ENCRYPTION_SERVER=REQUIRED SQLNET.CRYPTO_CHECKSUM_SERVER=REQUIRE...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Challenges in Cognos schedules

Setting up of schedules or modification of schedules for reports in Cognos 11 are not user friendly as in previous versions. We are explicitly using classic view to setup the schedules as it is user friendly. If any user tries to modify the existi...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

To update the data module when there is a change in the metadata

Whenever there is change in underlying Database , we need to refresh the metadata in Cognos data server and also need to update each data module manually
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Add color for Min, Mid, Max in Bullet Charts on Dashboards

Reports support this feature but dashboards do not. Add this feature to bullet visual in dashboards.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Its possible to enable SFTP to transfer images

PMR 00787,999,683 Hello team Please share the images folder in CA R4. In a previous case we had access to a SFTP, we're still using that shared folder to test with cubes (mdc). Its possible to enable SFTP access for this case too. Thanks in advance.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Allow custom images in 11.1 Multi-tenanted

Customers using Cognos Analytics on Cloud Multi-tenanted are going to want to be able to upload or have us upload, their own images, typically for branding purposes.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Sort and Cascade Filters in Dashboards

It would be great if we can treat the top filters for dashboards as data items that we can sort on, filter to display values of interest and cascade.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Delivered

Tile View Display

We have a request that we believe would be beneficial for everyone. We would like the option of fixing the truncated text on the recent reports ran within the Tile View Display. I have attached an image of what I am talking about.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Pie chart and other visualizations only displays either percent or numbers. It cannot be both.

We are trying to change the format of the measure used in pie chart from percent to number but it does not work. We would like to have a checkbox of having both numbers and percent format.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered