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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


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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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Ability to refrence another reports metadata (query) into new report

I write reports that have several charts based on the same query. Users then consume these charts via workspace. The reason I have high density of charts in a single report is because they are using the same query. I don't want many reports with s...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Navigation Map Feature

Business Object WebI report to Cognos Conversion gap Feature: Navigation map The navigation map feature in BO is used commonly and Cognos does not have an equivalent feature / functionality. The work around option is Table of content or Bookmark a...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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

Support column edges for keep with previous / next

Support KeepWithNext and KeepWithPrevious for horizontal pagination
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add random delay to triggered schedules - avoid report storm when triggered

Our ETL process issues triggers that are used for scheduling reports and events. What is happening, is that more and more objects are monitoring these triggers to fire processes such as reports and events. The trouble is that we are starting to ha...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prohibit Concurrent Logins in Business BI (including mobile)

As noted in PMR 81027,442,000, our security function has cited us as having a security issue with the present ability to sign into IBM Cognos BI in multiple sessions at the same time. Per a discussion with IBM security, this is a BI session manage...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for TIDAL Cognos Integration

Currently there is no support from IBM on intgrating Cognos with "Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler". This request is for Cognos to initiate support for TIDEL. Also comeup with guidelines/best Practices for Tidal-Cognos Integration.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show date the cube was updated in Workspace Advanced

our customer want to see the cube updated on date in Workspace Advanced - as this is possible in Report Studio and Analysis Studio
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cube designer: Dimension short cuts renameable like Framework shortcuts

In cube designer, I have many date fields in many facts and all of them have different names, everything cant be called "Date".If I change the name of a dimension that resides in a cube, it changes all the other dimensions in cubes, therefore, I h...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Managing and administering to Schedules in Cognos Administration console

We are having challenges managing the number of schedules that exist in our environment. We have some questions around the management and administraiton of schedules. If these possibilities do not exist via advanced configuration parameters we wou...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration