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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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Allow adding email address /name and direct search

Currently adding email address / names is a very complex and confusing process for end users IT would be nice to type in a name or role and get Cognos to confirm its correct And if not allow to search without selecting folders
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request for Email Subject API

We are working in a project with the IBM software services to trigger running the report and send the report output by email using the attached HTTP POST method. However, the email subject is always the same as stored in the "deliveryOptions" bina...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Search & Replace for Data Modules

Users will need to be able to search and replace expressions in data modules. Currently, not every ID change is automatically adapting its dependencies, causing errors in the data module. Now, we need to one by one adapt all depending expressions,...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Query Studio Support for DataModules

Query Studio is the self-service tool used by all our end users. Currently QS does not support data modules. With Data Modules becoming so popular, it is important they be supported by QS, otherwise the usage of DataModules will be very limited.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Forecasting not available with Package included in Data Module

Forecasting is being used on a visualization from a relational source only. The data module contains relational tables and a package. The issue is the forecast does not work unless we remove the package from the data module. However, the package i...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Remove list of Recent Projects listed in FM welcome screen

In a multi-tenancy (shared) environment for Framework Manager, allow the need to remove the list of Recent Projects (files) listed on the Welcome Screen. Currently the default setting is 4: <Preference Name="RecentProjectListSize">4</Pref...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Not under consideration

pdf drill through for Edge Browser

users used to be able to in IE have reports in pdf format and click on embedded report links and have them open successfully. support has verified this is delivered again for v11.2 with Chrome or Firefox but not Edge browser. This will remain brok...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Cross Tab is not interactive when clicked on Child categories

The current hierarchy has six levels in the cross tab and only the first level (Parent level) is clickable and interactive. When we click on any other levels the interaction with other visualizations doesn't happen. The collapse functionality is n...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

User Access to Data in Content Store

I have been asked a few times about data stored in the CA content store at various Cognos installations I have worked at. My manager asked if there is a way to retrieve the various user folders in the system and their associated user group capabil...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make dialogs smart - prepopulate options to be selected with possiblity to overwrite manually

Any dialog with pre-populated option-select-boxes should enable the user to select predefined values and still give the possibility to manually enter, change or overwrite the value in case new CSS or HTML rules are released from W3C.In this case t...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration