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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:


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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,


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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

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Cognos Event Studio need to work in Edge (web browser)

Cognos EventStudio works in IE, but not in the successor browser Edge. Cognos Event Studio need to work in Edge.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Expand support for PDF drill through functionality to Chrome and Firefox ESR

Background: PDF drill through functionality was designed around the Adobe NPAPI plugin. However, major browsers have ended support for NPAPI. - Chrome ended support in 2015.- Firefox will end support on the 32 bit ESR browser soon (early 2018). Su...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Data Level Security for Cognos Analytics Data Modules and Data Sets

In order for Data Modules and Data Sets to be used extensively across the enterprise they must include the capability to apply security to control what users can access. Data Level security is important when deploying reporting across the organiza...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Advanced Graphs - Trend Lines and Summarisations and more advanced options in Cognos Analytics Dashboards and Report Studio

We are trying to persuade our clients to move away from client tools such as Power BI / Tableau to leverage the DW and take advantage of metadata models built in Framework Manager. We have tried replicating reports made in Power BI (with ease) in ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Reactivate change package funtionality using the properties

Cognos analytics does not offer the option to change a package using just the properties windows (Package is shown, but no option to change the package). This option was available in Cognos 10.X and is also available by using the legacy UI.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Import from & Export to Clipboard options for Cognos Analytics Dashboard like Copy & Open from Clipboard options for Report

Looking for a feature where we can Import from & Export to Clipboard options for Cognos Analytics Dashboard like Copy & Open from Clipboard options for ReportDue to lack of this feature - every time it causes to Re-design the Dashboard if ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Cognos Analytics on Cloud for < 25 Users

The Workgroup offering is the first entry point that IBM provides for its Cognos Business Intelligence on cloud solution. The minimum number of users within Workgroup is 25 users. Ideally, it is requested that IBM provide an offering that allows a...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Package capabilites to deny use of data mondul, data set and dashboard

To able to deny development on a package is very important for security reason. Very often it is complex to build all security into the package, and then we need to put the security into the reports. Doing so we need to security the package so no ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 10 Delivered

Ability to create alias tables in data modules

Need the ability to create Alias Tables in Data modules. This is a requirement to effectively use data modules instead of Framework Manager.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Delivered

Hide Queries option in report studion 11.1+ as it was in all previous versions

ad-hoc users should not have ability create custom SQLs or joins in report studio.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered