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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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).


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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.

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Enhance Cognos Administration – CUG2026

linke Motio CI/PI Capabilities in AdministrationNative support for search & replace across reports, Git-based version control, full content visibility, and bulk role/group assignments.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Better Role-Based UI Customization in UI/Administration – CUG2026

Allow full UI customization (buttons, menus, toolboxes) based on user roles. For Example: At the moment it is not possible to hide the toolbox in reporting or the page switcher... We need this to get the Analysis Studio Users happy in Reporting (o...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Centralized Settings Storage in Administration/UI – CUG2026

Store all user and system settings in the Content Store instead of cookies or session parameters.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics Admin Agent: Scheduled Data Server Connection Refresh

Accurate dashboards and reports depend on up‑to‑date Data Server Connection Assets. In many environments, connection metadata drifts over time due to schema changes, credential updates, or infrastructure modifications. A scheduled, resource-aware ...
12 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics Admin Agent: Automated Housekeeping of Unused Content

Cognos environments accumulate many unused reports, dashboards, data modules, and packages over time. This creates clutter, confuses users, increases storage costs, and risks distributing outdated information. Automated housekeeping ensures only r...
12 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Admin Agent: Automated Credential Health & Rotation

Overview: The Cognos Administration Agent should provide a fully automated and proactive Credential Health & Rotation capability to prevent schedule failures caused by expired, deprovisioned, or misconfigured credentials. This feature strength...
12 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted
513 VOTE

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

Improved Extension & Visualization Management in Cognos Deployments

Cognos currently treats all extensions and visualizations as a single flat collection. During deployment, the system automatically includes every extension/visualization on the source server, with no way to distinguish between: IBM‑delivered sam...
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics (CA) with Unified and Granular Security Audit Logging for Compliance with QRADAR

Business Context: As an enterprise customer operating in a regulated industry, we are required to meet strict IT security audit standards (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC2, GDPR). Currently, auditing capability across the IBM Cognos Analytics is fragmented. ...
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Administratively Configure Default Option when Sending Report by Email

I have found that most users prefer to have report outputs distributed via e-mail as attachments so they can work on and/or re-distribute the output on their own, especially if some of the users included in the distribution do not have access to C...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 5 Future consideration