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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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Persistent or User-configured Width for Navigation Menu

We would like the width of the navigation menu on the left side of the portal to be either persistent or configurable by the user.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

How to show the Report or folder description in the Cognos 11 portal

How to show the Report or folder description in the Cognos 11 portal (instead of has to go to the properties by clicking the ellipsis on right (3 dots). )? With Cognos 10 you were able to show the report description in the portal by setting prefer...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow CREATE/REPLACE for users other than owner

Currently on Db2 LUW CREATE OR REPLACE is only allowed for the owner of a database object. CREATE OR REPLACE authorization should be opened up to allow create/replace by anyone who has the ability to drop the object and to create the object with a...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 3 Not under consideration

Missing graphical animation indicator for Suspend icon

When Suspending a report there is no graphical animation indication that states if it is working/processing, etc. There should be some indicator implemented for user friendliness.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need Refresh icon on My schedules and subscriptions

In Cognos v10 the My schedules and Subscriptions has a refresh icon that is utilized by our company and business partners however, in Cognos v11 this feature has gone away
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need way for users to inspect Element Weight properties

In Perspectives our user would inspect the Element weight in the Dimension properties to ensure the weighting set for roll ups is correct. No longer an options for Non-Admin users in PAx or PAw
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Default current date for date field in report and job

There is no way to default "current date" for any Date parameters, this is really necessary in both reporting and scheduled jobs.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable "Reset prompts and run" on a report or folder

TS001246554: Need ability to disable "Reset prompts and run" option on all drill-through reports where the parameters are passed from master reports. Re-setting the prompt page on a drill through report does not yield in easily understood prompt c...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include query expansions in the new WDS usage logs

The new logs API call is very useful, however, it is missing the query expansion functionality to see what query actually got executed by WDS, instead of the NLQ coming through API. This is especially needed in client applications to understand wh...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Add saved report outputs to search

Add existing saved report outputs to Cognos Search. They should be indexed and made available so contents of generated HTML-, Excel- PDF-, csv- and xml-files can be found via Cognos Search. There should also be an option to enable/disable search w...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration