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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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Search option doesn't permit to search only a specific string

Our company has thousands of reports and associated event studios. We gave to each report a unique identifier like SCL16B. When using the search menu, we can no longer search for this specific string. The search uses a kind of AI that expands the ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to customize error messages presented in Cognos

We would like the ability to create custom error messages that are more intuitive rather than the default Cognos error message. (e.g. : Error Occurred! Please contact Support team.) The existing error messages are confusing to business users and...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Implement failover in Cognos Analytics

Implement failover in Cognos Analytics
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Consistent naming throughout Cognos Analytics

Cognos Analytics changed to "Team Content" from "Public Folders" and "My Folders" to "My Content", but in some places where the legacy interface is integrated with the new interface, references to "My Folders" still exist. It would be consistent t...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Deny copy from folders without write permissions

In the Cognos Analytics interface; we would like to have the ability to deny or remove copy from folders that users do not have write access to. Currently there is no way of preventing users with read and traverse from copying reports and saving t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Zero suppression in a report using a data module

When a report is using a data module as source, zero suppression is only applicable via the query. If the report is running against a package instead, there is an additional icon on the toolbar to directly filter zero values in the report view. Th...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Swap Series and Categories

Add ability to quickly swap series and categories on a visualization - similar to swap columns and rows on a crosstab.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict the size for a report output

We need to limit the size of a report output (i.e. pdf, csv, xlsx) to a maximum size. Defined by us. A warning message should be produced for the users in case that the report exceeds this defined limit. Unfortunately this functionality is current...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Provide Detailed Information for "Date Modified" in Properties of a Report

Currently the Properties of a Report have a field called "Date Modified" and according to the website from IBM below this field is updated under various conditions and "modified" is not the best description of those conditions. The website advises...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data module: add governors

Governors should be available in data modules like they are in Framework Manager. For example it is currently not possible to prevent local processing.
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration