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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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Need keyboard shortcut keys to skip links and move to main report content

Keyboard users are unable to skip the links (on top of report output) and move to the main content of Report Studio report. They have to tab through all the links to get to the main content.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prevent defined files from being deleted during installation

Request for an configurable options of files and folders, that are not deleted during installation or upgrade situation.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Offer PowerPlay Studio with Cognos Analtyics on Cloud

Offer PowerPlay Studio with Cognos Analytics on Cloud.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Allow Filters to be edited by clicking if shown in report

The new reporting tool lacks the capability that Query Studio offered in the shown filters could be removed or edited by clicking on them. The overall style of how they are shown in 11.0.3 are far less superior than what Query Studio offered.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Break sets

The new report tool allows you to define when pulling over dimensions if they are to be individual members or a set. We would think that we should be able to make a change by clicking an option to break the set, rather than having to remove the se...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Produce Cognos output in MS Word

Need to be able to run a report in OpenPages, and have the ability to edit it in MS Word. We currently have a report designed that pulls from fields in multiple objects, designed to replicate an Operational Risk - RCSA report we used to produce in...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More visibility into where reports are running

I would like to request more visibility in the "running tasks" and "past activity" areas that shows a column for which dispatcher the job is running on. Also, it would be helpful for tracking issues if when there was a failure, it showed you what ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customize font colors in Cognos 11

We want to be able to customize font colors in Cognos 11. In previous version, there was option to customize User Interface (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ba-pp-infrastructure-portals-page631/) by using styles/skin.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Burst functionality is not available for reports with Crosstab & Charts

Our reports have only Crosstab and charts, adding a list does not help. Please let us know if we can burst the report with only crosstab & charts
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add Oracle hints in Framework Manager and Report Studio

Our queries dynamically generated when user is performing drill up/down actions on the dimensional report. We cannot make them Native SQL to append hints. We are looking for the ability to apply oracle hints to the generated query at run time
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration