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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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Support for VARBINARY data type (HANA) in DQM in IBM Cognos Analytics

The import of fields with the data type VARBINARY from HANA in IBM Framework Manager rises an error. To connect to HANA DQM mode is required. The import of fields with an VARBINARY data type in IBM Framework Manager causes the DQM-error XQE-GEN-00...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delete report View from Subscription folder when last subscription is deleted

In Cognos Analytics 11.0.8 when a user delete's his Subscriptions through the 'Modify my schedules and subscriptions' menu the Report View in this Subscriptions folder isn't deleted even when it is the last Schedule on the Report View to be deleted.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel Export Group repeated cells set at page level

We create reports that detail the user-selected prompt choices on a cover page and the actual report on a report page. The cover page consists of a table with two columns: left column are all the prompt choices available, right column consists of ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Adding option to Search for members to remove them, this feature is currently only available when users are to be added

In Cognos administration, under the security groups, there is no option to search for members to remove them. You can only search once you have select the add option. In groups with 100+ users, it is extremely difficult to find individuals to remo...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable or disable cache setting globally

Currently we can enable or disable the cache setting at individual report/dashboard/Data Module level. Sometimes this cache setting helps in improving performance and some time disabling it helps the performance improvement. If such setting is ava...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Monitor archive file location for access problems

When the archive location is not accessible by the cognos dispatcher the problem should be logged and reported to the system administrator.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Explore Summary from compare card

Copying (ctrl+C) summaries from explorations into Dashboards
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Disable "Automatic Group and Summery behavior for List"

Currently in the report development tool, this annoying feature is enabled by default. It can be disabled on report by report bases by going to /ellipsis/option/Report and un-checking this option. Please disable this feature by default or give us...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Child prompts does not get auto selected.

child prompts are not auto selected when its respective parent is selected.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set default width of vertical divider

The entire name of the PowerPlay Reports cannot be displayed in the navigation bar, because they are a bit too long. Ability to set the default width of vertical divider for all users.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration