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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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Render authenticated external images in non-HTML formatted Cognos output

We run a report that embeds an HTML image sitting on a non-Cognos webserver in the same domain. When running the report in HTML output format, the image appears in the report. When running the report in PDF and Excel 2007 format however, no image ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adding double quotes " for CSV files

Having the ability to have double quotes when exporting CSV files. This is required to use for Open Government Data. Option was working in Cognos 10.2.2, and currently no resolution for CA11.9. Example:* NOW: aaa bbb 123 * NEED: "aaa", "bbb", "123"
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a function to determine if we are in the last PDF page row or column of a list or a crosstab

Reporting: Add a function to determine if we are in the last PDF page row or column of a list or a crosstabBe able to determine with a report function if we are in the last row or/and column of a list or a crosstab of a physical PDF page in order ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Custom URL for documents from Cognos for Office

In Cognos 10.2.2 it was possible to write a custom URL for documents uploaded by Cognos for Office.Here we had a search path and a default action URL.With the combination of action URL (the ID has to be replaced by the search path) we always had t...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

FrameWork Manager 10.2.2 - Import metadata

## English VersionWith Cognos FrameWork Manager 10.2.2, we import Teradata views in DQM mode.The response times are very long.We analyze the queries sent to Teradata. The query (in the use case) lasts longer than 4 min 30s.It uses tables systems :...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable reporting on Cognos configuration metadata

Add the ability to report/extract configuration information from the Content Store database or Cognos Administration portal.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide option to create VCD files compatible with Windows or Unix, Linux paths.

Please provide option in Transformer that specifies the VDC file to be created with specific Windows or Unix\Linux paths depending on the intended target platform for the Powercube, or both in a mixed platform environment.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Interactive Prompt screen for Manual Job Run

We have a few jobs set up to run manually. But the prompt page for the report in the job is not popping up and users have set prompt value going through edition options. That cause a few issue with security and we have re set up the job if the use...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Framework Manager's http requests must have host header with proper value

See the following ticket for more details: TS005317880. We use Cognos Framework Manager 11.0.11. The host header in some Framework Manager's http requests is incorrect.Instead to be the dispatcher's host name, the host header value is the name of ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Template for use with Powerplay Cubes in Report Studio

With the deprecation of Powerplay Studio in Cognos Analytics on Cloud, we need a template that can be used to quickly start a user creating a report. Powerplay Studio would automatically create a pivot table with the first two dimensions in the mo...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration