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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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PowerPlay should alert user of unsupported browser

Please enhance PowerPlay to warn users when their browser is unsupported. It would help reduce our support load greatly and reduce user frustration with PowerPlay.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics v11 - add commentary on Dashboards in Context

capability to add comments on the dashboard either on a chart/object and overall dashboard. With the flexibility to show the comments based on the filters applied at the time.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Resubmit functionality is not available for report in 10.2 format

Resubmit functionality allows user after entering parameters and executing report navigate back to parameters page with all parameters values entered before the run. This feature is available only when option 'Run with full interactivity' is set t...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

set placeholders on a SQL statement to SAP Hana

Per the PMR, when Cognos generates a SQL statement to access a hana view with required prompts, the SQL generates a select *, not a select col 1,2,3. Support suggested this is expected behavior but it is less than optimal
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Alert/notification of crypto keys expiration

Currently there is no way to tell when your Cognos Crypto keys will expire. It takes them expiring and the site not launching and causing errors before you are aware there is an issue.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Error Logs to be 'user preference' independant

In the COGSERVER.log and AUDIT database entries, we see that errors are logged in German if the user has selected German language in his preferences. While you expect the user interface to show in preferred language, the server logs are expected i...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Informix Sample Datasources for Cognos 11 Samples

Cognos Analytics / 11 currently only provides sample data for SQLServer, DB2 and Oracle. Since the ready-to-run version of CA runs its Content Store in an Informix Database it would be useful to be able to run the samples in it as well.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Refocus Prompt Page to Selected Prompt control after Page Reloads

When you click on a reprompt button on a prompt page with multiple prompts, the user is taken back to the first prompt on the page.This behavior is also seen with search and select prompts. Can the product behavior be modified to retain the focus ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics - Lineage from Report Viewer

Include Lineage in the pop-up toolbox from the new viewer. So that report users can see the source of the data. Not just authors looking at data items in the package. This functionality is available in 10.2.2
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Annotation Support in Cognos Reports

The user wants to create a storyboard from the reports that available for them and be able toannotate (i.e red lining, or draw a circle to highlight something on the chart/report, andadd free form text / comments) and then able to save them. Also,...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration