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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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Report views in Life Cycle manager

It would be very usefull to test report views in Life Cycle Manager, but on this moment report views are not supported.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Clicking CANCEL on "Report is Running" popup should not return to Public Folder, Should Stay in Prompt Page

Include Functionality Change in how Report running process is currently executed in Cognos BI. When the report has Multiple Prompts in 1 Prompt Screen and 1 of them is cascaded with the other, then there are situations when 1st Prompt selection ru...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: Add Lineage as in Report Studio for Data Items

add ability to see lineage in Event studio like we have in Report Studio
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Will Cognos support 4096 bit encryption strenth in future versions ?

Cognos currently accommodates 2098 encryption key strength. Will Cognos release a version within the next 15 months that can accommodate a strength of 4096?
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Looking for full support for Multi-Member Multi-Level Hierarchical Dimension data in Workspace Advanced.

Currently, the support for Multi-Member Multi-Level Hierarchical (TM1) Dimension data seems to be missing or limited to one member at a time in WA. We understand that IBM has committed to “Differences in Cognos Workspace Advanced will be bridged...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Failover Support to LDAP Provider

Customer wants to be able to add a second or third LDAP Server to an LDAP authentication source in IBM Cognos Configuration so an LDAP failure can be handled directly from Cognos.This requires in turn that the LDAP Provider receives Load Balancing...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

You can only jump from an executed WorkspaceAdvanced report into Report Studio

If a report designed in WSA is executed it should show the Workspace Advanced Icon in the menu in the upper right corner instead the Report Studio Icon and should jump to the WSA-Studio. Not every WSA consumer has the rights and the ability to wor...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Specify retention period to External Repository

With Filenet as external repository, Cognos Administrator doesn't seem to have any control over Retention period. Need a feature on Cognos to let the external repository know about the retention requirement at each report level.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to control the number of XQE log files in logs/XQE folder

Currently there appears to be no other way to control the number of log files to kept in logs/XQE folder, other than manually cleaning them up. Client would like to have a feature similar to cogserver.log files to allow only specific number of fil...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Administration > System. Add Non-peak, Peak Selections choices

When setting tuning parameters via Cognos Administration > System > Set Properties - Configuration | Settings Tab, there is a 'Category' drop down. Add the ability to look at only Non-Peak, or Peak.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration