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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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User Defined SQL within Report Studio access

Hi, Is it possible to include in future versions of Cognos the ability to allow specific users only access to read and execute report studio reports containing User Defined SQL but deny these users write access to the User defined SQL. Currently i...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

View Mode dashboard, allow changing of top or bottom #

When a user has a dashboard open in view mode, allow them to change the top/bottom function and #
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Support for Windows Server 2019 with CA

Clients are proposing infrastructure upgrades that include updates to their server operating systems. Those using Windows servers want to use Server 2019, which is currently not supported by Cognos Analytics (latest version R11.1.3 at time of writ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Delivered

Add an Organizational chart visualization as part of the reporting application

Would like to have an organizational chart visualization in the reporting application.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Applying Security - Cognos 11 Extensions

By default, any extension installed is available to all users! Tightening security requires admin to go to each Cognos security Role and manually remove access to the extension.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

See full report / report view / shortcut Location

I'd like copy report location into the clipboard. There is Location in the report properties. But the path is cropped. I can't select the path and copy paste to email.Shortcuts have the same problem. Shortcuts have Shortcut to property. The value ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Detailed descriptions on reports or other objects do not show

In version 10 easy to see the detailed descriptions on reports or other objects. In version, 11 the only way I can figure out how to see these descriptions is to individually click on each one
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Cognos Analytics on Cloud: Burst Report to File System

Burst Report to File System isn't available on Cloud. Either Share Network drive on Cloud or need to map to client's on-prem network share drive.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Allow schedules to be edited from upcoming activities admin view.

From the Cognos Analytics Administration portal the user should be able to select upcoming schedules. From the resulting list the user should be able to edit the schedule with normal schedule management functions as allowed by the capabilities ass...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Enable Report Studio to generate PDF reports with bookmarks and navigation pane

We are converting reports from another BI platform. These reports are large with lots of groups within them. The other BI platform generates a PDF navigation pane on the left hand side using PDF bookmarks. This allows the user to quickly jump to t...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Delivered