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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).


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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:


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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,


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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,

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  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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LOGOUT RE-DIRECT URL NOT BEING USED WHEN THE SESSION TIMES OUT.

When a Cognos session times out due to inactivity, the logout flow doesn’t invoke the “Logout redirect URL”, it goes straight to the login screen.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Functionality already exists

Deliver a warning when importing a deployment with security

When importing a deployment you may not know that the import has security enabled and it will overwrite the existing security. There should be a warning stating this.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under 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...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Use generic "From" emails for specific departments

One department within our organization would like emails for only their reports to come from a different email address than the Cognos default, and they do not want emails sent from one person/developer either.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Automatically renew past/current activities

Renew past/current activities automatically or add a renew button
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow alt text for brandImage in theme customization.

The Cognos Analytics theme allows administrators to customize the text and images of the welcome page using brandText and brandImage. The brandImage contains the organization name and is very clear for visually acute users. To accommodate the visu...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ability to hide Team Content for ordinary users

In Cognos 10.2 it was possible to hide the public folder using "consumer_root" in system.xml. In 11.2.1 I have the ability to set the "reports" folder as the custom folder but team content is still visible. setting security is not possible as the ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Seeing the contents of user's profile is not possible in Manage but only in old admin console

We try to use only Manage. In general just please add all functionalities from console to Manage. Detail: in Manage > Accounts when you see a user you can't see its content but instead just properties. This can be seen only in old Administratio...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Rest API for security group

Hello, We need an entegration with our security team. We did it before other BI tools with their rest api. But in Cognos we cannot use security group with members. Our security team don't want to use SDK because of our microservice standarts. You ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Increase the limit to add more than 20 parameters in System level in Cognos Admin console.

Hi Team, We had an activity recently to Un-register and add the dispatchers again in Cognos11 , but we lost all existing parameters after the task. And we decided to add all parameters in System level Instead of Individual dispatchers , but we cou...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration