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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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A new version of InfoSphere Streams compatible with OS Linux RedHat 7.8

The 4.3.0.0 version of InfoSphere Streams is not compatible with OS Linux RedHat 8 but the end of maintenance of the OS Linux RedHAT 7.8 is december 2023. So we need a compatible version of Streams
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos for Office Add In - RefreshAllData via VBA

With RefreshAllDataAndFormat and RefreshAllData you cann refresh data in an Excel Spreadsheet via VBA. Both applie to the entire Spreadsheet. I use some Spreadsheet in which two or more reports are embedded. It would be good if you can update the ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Teradata Temporal Table Support

For a Project called SRS (reconciliation Ledger with Finance & Risk & Liquidity, 10,000 Users) , BNPP uses Cognos BI on top of Teradata. Teradata introduced a new data type (PERIOD) and associated constructs and methods to perform temporal...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cross Tab is not interactive when clicked on Child categories

The current hierarchy has six levels in the cross tab and only the first level (Parent level) is clickable and interactive. When we click on any other levels the interaction with other visualizations doesn't happen. The collapse functionality is n...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Sending burst reports from a generic email

The Registrar's office wanted to use the burst option available for sending out reports to their users. But whenever that function was activated the email delivery had the report author's email as the sender, while it is supposed to be from the re...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

User Access to Data in Content Store

I have been asked a few times about data stored in the CA content store at various Cognos installations I have worked at. My manager asked if there is a way to retrieve the various user folders in the system and their associated user group capabil...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Have the ability to lock the position of widgets

When I am designing a dashboard I often find it frustrating to have everything all lined up and then I change a title or something on a widget and accidentally move it a little and have to go and check or adjust all the positioning again. It would...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request for Email Subject API

We are working in a project with the IBM software services to trigger running the report and send the report output by email using the attached HTTP POST method. However, the email subject is always the same as stored in the "deliveryOptions" bina...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve TM1 Server Startup Logging

Please have the TM1 Server log more details between the following lines during start up for at least the three below situations : 1- 41944 [] INFO 2020-02-14 09:36:13.975 TM1.Transaction TM1TransactionLog::Initialize: Recovery of lingering transac...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to remove 'Send to printer' as a Delivery option

We would like the ability to remove the delivery option 'Send to printer' when running a report. We are upgrading to 11.1.5, and the 'Send to printer' is not removed upon removing the user's 'Printer' capability. Currently, removing this capabilit...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration