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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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.

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.

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Cognos MCP

An MCP server for Cognos Analytics could help the business by giving agentic AI controlled access to Framework Manager metadata, package definitions, data source schemas, and report specifications, enabling faster impact analysis, better governanc...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts

Agentic AI to help modeling

Please consider adding an Agentic AI Framework Modeling Assistant to IBM Cognos Analytics Framework Manager and Data Module, aligned with the existing Cognos Assistant and agentic AI roadmap. The feature should help Cognos modelers analyze Framewo...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts

Option to Disable Insight from Cognos Assistant

When the Cognos Assistant is queried, it returns both analytical outputs (such as charts and visualizations) as well as accompanying insights. However, since the Cognos Assistant does not leverage an LLM-based approach, these insights are generate...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts Submitted

Share this report via email to me / Share this report via email to <firstname> <lastname>

I'm using Agentic IA from the Assistant panel. I don't use anonymous access on my server so my server knows who I am. I would like to use "Share this report via email to me" or "Share this report via email to <firstname> <lastname>". I...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts Submitted

Cognos Assistant Insight to Add the Total Risk Insight.

When querying Cognos Assistant with “Show all active risk by business entity,” the assistant generates multiple insights. One of the insights displayed is: “Total number of results for active risk, across all business entities, is 88.” However, th...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts Submitted

An NLG (Natural Language Generation) Customization Studio for Watson in Cognos

Create a dedicated "NLG Studio" within Cognos Analytics that allows administrators and business users to customize the tone, terminology, and key metrics used in Watson's automated insights. Users could create and save custom narrative templates f...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts Submitted

Provide integration with ChatGPT for AI Analysis of reporting results

We can see if will be a great business case that if we call ChatGPT, then pass the file and ask ChatGPT to analyse and provide a summary. If we can do that, it will greatly improve the use of Cognos in our decisions making process.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts Planned for future release

Ability to hide button 'Automatic Dashboard' via role customization or user capability

There is a new function 'Automatic Dashboard' in Cognos 12.0.4 which cannot be hidden from our users, neither with role customization nor with user capability. There are two main issues with that function so we want to have the ability to hide it....
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts Not under consideration

AI Insights and Narrative Insights should be available in custom visualizations as well as the prepackaged IBM visualizations.

Currently, the icons show in the upper right when a custom visualization is used in a dashboard, and when icon is clicked the Insight panel displays but no insights are offered. It simply reads, 'there are no insights for this object'. This functi...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts Future consideration

Configurable "smarts"

Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts Not under consideration