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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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Restrict the search to an specific folder in Cognos

The Cognos Analytics search option searches through all the folders that the user has permission to. For the report builders and Bi Adminstrators this results in too many hits when searching an report by name, because they also get hits from archi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Interactive vs Non-interactive re-run differences

When you click the run on an interactive report, not the drop down on the run you get a prompt page to re-run. If you click the drop down there is no reset prompts and run choice. When you click the run on a non-interactive report, you get a drop ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic email headings

Dynamic email headings: in scheduled reports and burst reports it is not possible to dynamically set the content of the email subject header: it would be nice if you can dynamically set the heading of an email to include for example the group valu...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Not under consideration

Update of SDK documentation for CA

The SDK for IBM Cognos has not been updated since 10.2.2. The current version of CA contains at least 12 new classes: ShowHintsEnumReportMetadataHistoryDetailMoserServiceBaseReportMetadataExplorationCustomizationDataSourceSchemaBaseModuleUploadedF...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBCS standard visualizations

IBCS is a well known reporting standard, especially among people working in Controlling. They are used to standardized reports and require the same type of visualizations to be available in Cognos Analytics. Moreover, such visualizations are avail...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Use Microsft SMTP server Office 365 TLS

I want to use our SMTP Office365 (cloud Microssoft) for sending emails from COGNOS. Microsft uses TLS. The support said me that TLS is not supported by IBM COGNOS.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Release 32-bit version of Informix CSDK v4.50

Some customers are constrained and need to continue to use Informix 32-bit CSDK drivers. Their applications currently use the Informix 32-bit libraries & there are often build constraints to moving to a 64-bit CSDK.
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 5 Not under consideration

UI for massive update of enumerated field

For Admin User it's possibile (and very easy) create new a few records in enumareted fields or anable existing ones; but it's very complex to upload massive record or update them... some picklist needs to be resfreshed or implementing with new opt...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Please add buffering for LOBs

Please add buffering for LOBs
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Types / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

.Net Framework 4.8 Support

.Net Framework 4.8 is often pre-installed on modern PC servers, but Information Server 11.7.1 does not support .Net Framework 4.8. .Net Framework 4.8 should be supported as soon as possible.
8 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration