Skip to Main Content
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


ADD A NEW IDEA

All ideas

Showing 14702 of 14702

When deleting a deployment in Admin, delete the file in OS

When a deployment is deleted from within cognos, the deployment archive is not deleted from the operating system.Since Cognos can create the archive, it should optionally delete it as well.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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

exporting report the PA uses as default an existing open excel file

User to open a new workbook before the view is created / downloaded
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide mechanism for Session Management

ISSUE:Session Management OBSERVATION :Session is not terminating on closing the browser RATING :LOW DESCRIPTION :Application is not terminating the session on closing the browser. We were able to render the page and use the session to access the u...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IMPORT REPEATER TABLE WITHOUT LOSING FORMAT USING IBM COGNOS FOR MICROSOFT OFFICE

System: IBM Cognos 10.2.1Actor: User needing new feature IBM Cognos is a commonly used product that provides reporting for better control of company data. Description: Our team uses IBM Cognos to report company data and to send this report as pres...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Parallel Framework Installs

There is no alternate way of running multiple version of Framework manager on the same server.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under 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

IBM OpenPages Cognos Framework is missing the IS_LOCKED field

The OpenPages Cognos reporting framework is supposed to include a field called 'IS_LOCKED' for each object. This field has a value of 0 if unlocked and 1 if locked. It is NOT present in the generated framework. The field is in the underlying RV...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Not under consideration

Add Lookup Tables to the Structure Changes that are tracked

Our external auditors are adding controls to the mapping of data (trial balance and statisical data) into Cognos. In order to elminate the need for the walk-through of negative and postive testing in Cognos (on a regular basis) it would be helpful...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Certification of BS10008 on IBM products

We are working for a bank project. In order to onboard a new business we were asked to verify whether the softwares we are using are BS10008 certified or not. We are using below softwares in current project: Filenet Content Manager:5.5.4 ICN: 3.0....
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration