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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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Limit Concurrent Sessions per user in Content Store

Limit the amount of cuncurrent sessions a user can log into the content store. This is a security issue if a user can do so too many times
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Add nested menu items for the actions menu

At the moment any menu item added to com.ibm.bi.contentApps.listViewMenu will appear as an additional row. There is a finite amount of space. I'd like to have an option to add nested menu items where clicking the row would open additional menu ite...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Allow Multiple Sessions of CA in Edge Browser

In IE, it is possible to open multiple sessions of CA, for instance a CA Development env, Test env, and Production env all at the same time. When attempting to do so with Edge, a cookie error results. Not sure if the architecture of Edge will perm...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Not under consideration

Add Favourite Favorite item to navigation menu

I require a quick way to access my favourite reports, dashbards, folders. Currently I have to create shortcuts in my content, or search etc. this is clunky. On the home menu, that has Home, New, Upload Data, Recent, there should be a 'Favourites' ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Add theming options for the new OpenMenu bar

The Open Menu bar is replacing the Navigation Bar in Cognos Analytics 12.0.x. It's actually just a naming difference more than anything else. They both are the effective left bar in the user portal that contain links to your My Folders, Public Fol...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Make MRU (most recently used) Refresh Time Shorter or Configurable

We have found the MRU list, most recently used, is not reliably updated if the browser is closed without explicit log off from Cognos.The sync by the system every 5 minutes does work well. It would be helpful if this sync was more often or could b...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Adding group permissions for use in customized extensions

We need the possibility like in version 12.0.0 to limiting extensions to specific roles and groups in the actual LTS Version 11.2.4. For the Version 12.0.0 this is described here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/blogs/ti...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

View Activities & Schedules, Allow for users that do not have Scheduling capability

Company users rely on Cognos team for all scheduling, users are not allowed to schedule. However, users want to know if their report schedules are failing/succeeding, they want transparency into schedules, without the ability to modify/edit/delete...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Expose capability/customization for report delivery options

We would invite to have an option to hide/show per user role/group delivery options when running in background, so that we have option to deactivate local save or deactivate send via email if we need to plus option to change the default selection ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Option in portal to have folders/objects for Recent, Content, My Content or custom views appear in list view by default (instead of tile view by default)

Coming from release 11.1.7 to 11.2.2 users are more used to a list view for navigating to folders, reports, dashboards, etc. Users are also used to a list view when using the legacy portal to open cubes in Analysis Studio. We would like the option...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1