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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 Data & AI Roadmaps (http://ibm.biz/Data-and-AI-Roadmaps) - Use this site to view roadmaps for Data & AI products.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://hybridcloudunit-internal.ideas.aha.io/


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Hide Namespace in Schedule Directory

While auditing for security processes I discovered that some of our external sources have the ability to see and if possible email internal recipients; this includes some proprietary recipients. I would IBM to create the ability for IBM support pe...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Show changes to Manage -> Configuration -> System -> Advanced Settings -> Custom Settings

Changes which have been made to Manage -> Configuration -> System ->Advanced Settings -> Custom Settings by an Admin should be shown. Right now there is no way to find out which custom changes have been made. An APAR (https://www.ibm.c...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Adding auto-sync to add a group users from OKTA without importing .cvs file

The IT/admin wants to be able to add multiple or a group of users from OKTA (Open ID) on CA instead of one by one, intuitively they'd do so directly from the 'add' button and expect to see the list (of user groups) for selection. Benefits: this ne...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

ALL Mail recipients in (Job) schedules visible at first sight

When creating a schedule, the user has the possibility to use main mail recipient, cc recipient, and bcc recipient. When manipulating a schedule later, ALL defined recipient types (main, cc, bcc) should show up at first sight, without necessity to...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Flag when a deployment has been processed in the dropbox and is ready for use

When a new deployment file is loaded to the CAoC SFTP dropbox there appears to be a delay while it is moved to the system for deployment. Our current automation waits 15 minutes after upload before triggering the deployment job on production. A fl...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Additional ciphers needed for NSS library

Hello, If possible, please add additional ciphers to the NSS library for the following Cognos version: 11.1.7 11.2.1 11.2.2 11.2.3 The additional ciphers are: TLSv1.2 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 We...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Improve Notification table clean up.

We have observed that large number of row counts in the nc database after time that is effecting performance. IBM Cognos BI Schedules Take a Long Time to Complete Can we do more to have observed all tables cleaned up as the following tables with v...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Support localization of Theme

As a robust enterprise solution, IBM Cognos Analytics supports several great localization options. However, we are not able to customize the Administration > Customization > Theme based on language. It would be great if Cognos had an option ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Remove the need for NC Drop, handle dead processes / schedules better

Currently, if a bad report is scheduled or something happens to the environment, the NC table can build up as explained by this technote and make schedules slow or send them into pending. To resolve this requires a lengthy process of a) backing up...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Search text in the report from the Cognos Portal Search

We are looking for option to have wide search in the cognos portal. We are only allowed with 11.1.x search functionality was enhanced and allows for searching of objects such as table and column labels in addition to report names, folder names, pa...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration