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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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Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Create distribution lists within a tenant

In Cognos 11, Distribution Lists can only be created from the Cognos namespace. This prevents tenant client administrators from managing within their own tenant. We would like the ability to have our own client tenants maintain their administratio...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Translate Chart Title in Dashboard

Ability to translate a chart title. We want to be able to add it to the things that get translated in the dashboard translation tool
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Default output format in reporting

Please use the same mechanics as in Cognos 10 where you had the same output format every time you clicked on the play button. Now you have to chose every report execution which output format you want to see.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change the Label of a linked data module

If a new data module is created, and an existing data module is added, it comes in as a link. Need the ability to change the labels of the linked-in data module. This would include changing the labels of the linked in data module itself as well as...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add feature to role customization for creating report from package menu

We are missing the menu item called "Create report" when right clicking on a package or selecting the 3 vertical dots menu of a package. This is the only place left that a user can create a report that can't be customized in the new features custo...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics: Enable communication via proxy

Mr. Ronald Srnka from IBM and I are currently trying to implement Single-Sign-On for our IBM Cognos TM1 (Planning Analytics) at Bilfinger SE. However, while installing Cognos Analytics, we are facing the problem that the Cognos Analytics Service i...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Concurrent Login with Single Account [OWASP Top Ten 2013 - A2]:

Improper Session Termination When a user logs out of the application or closes the application window, the corresponding session is not destroyed on the server. This allows a client-side session identifier to reactivate a session that the user in...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Trusted tickets for Cognos /Trusted Authentication

Enable Trusted tickets in Cognos so ,Embedded Cognos Reports/dashboards will not be prompted for Authentication
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display Screen tips for Planning Analytics / TM1 dimensions elements in Cognos Report studio

When developing Cognos Framework Manager models we can add Screen tips for query subjects and query items. This is very helpful for business users as we can clarify usage for certain elements. When creating/republishing Cognos packages with TM1 cu...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration