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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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Include ALLOWDQ setting in default cogtr.xml

Include ALLOWDQ setting in default cogtr.xml configuration file. This option should already be enabled or have a File > Preferences setting to enable it.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Report Studio: Multilingualism of Report Page Names (Excel Export Tab Names)

Report Studio page names don't have an option like "Text Source Variable" and therefore can't be translated in different languages.This would be neccessary when using the Excel Export functionality. Report Page Names are used as Excel tab names.Th...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Password expiration management in COGNOS Connection Portal

Users accessing COGNOS Connection portal are not notified wen their password has expired and get an "invalid login/password" error message.They have no way of resetting their asswrd and an administrator action is required.We would like to have the...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capturing activity on audit report from drill-thru links

We created a Cognos report that shows who has accessed specific reporting on our server. However, we are unable to see all the activity for a report that has drill-thru links to other reports. In this case, a user is able to choose between repor...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Trapping QueryService changes via Event Studio for Dynamic Cube startup

I have many dynamic cubes. I choose to disable the queryservice from starting the cubes, as this would create too and uncontrolled load on the BI servers.Instead I have created content maintenance jobs to start my cubes in a controlled sequence. T...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customized populating of the email recipients

My external customer (Anthem Inc.) has requested the following functionality in their current Cognos environment, for which I am one of three Admins). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------When runni...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

description in tiles view

In cognos connection description for objects (reports etc.) is available in tiles view. Description for folder (or other objects) is NOT available in tiles view. For users it would be much more comfortable to see the description for ALL objects (i...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Not under consideration

Preserving of the server .xml settings when starting from commandline in Linux

Preserve the server .xml settings when we choose the option use ./cogconfig.sh –s to start service. This saves the server.xml losing all the changes (we use it for configuring AJP port, by uncommenting the setting and sometimes changing the AJP ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Navigation Map Feature

Business Object WebI report to Cognos Conversion gap Feature: Navigation map The navigation map feature in BO is used commonly and Cognos does not have an equivalent feature / functionality. The work around option is Table of content or Bookmark a...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show detailed error message in Cognos Analytics Data Module- Cognos 11.0.12

Team, We are using the Data module functionality more often. We are not receiving the detailed error message in the screen if there is any issue with the underlying data. It is just showing the standard error message "Can not load grid data:...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration