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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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Seamlessly create a new Report Schedule or Migrate schedules from one namespace to another without asking for Credential Regeneration

It is useful for existing Business-like UPS who has thousands to users who have existing schedules with IBM Directory Server and currently migrating to OIDC for MS Azure. New users have to go through this extra step and existing SDK for Regenerati...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Add zoom function to Active Report Viewer

It would be nice to have zoom functionality in the Active Report Viewer client to get rid of the scrollbars when opening report on a laptop with smaller screen.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Enable OpenID Connect for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

We would like to use OpenID Connect instead of creating secrets every year for the connection to our Azure AD. See also case number TS012088126
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Submitted

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 or 11.2.x versions signed install and Signed DLL and exec files

IT security Team is asking us to All cognos install files -DLL and exe needs to be signed. That way it can be trusted from security standpoint of view
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Add filter tree element for time series breaking year, month (string), days, time...

When building a dashboard, it's a common requirement to filter time in group blocks, just like in MS Excel (example attached). This feature do not exists in cognos dashbord for filtering, although there's something similar in the table view widget...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Page Preview's row per page default setting

Product: Cognos Workspace AdvancedActor: customer needing system setting change Description: our customer is asking for changing the default "rows per page" value when working in Page Preview mode Actually this setting is set to 50rows for a curre...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add group excel functionnality in Cognos

Add a functionality in Cognos to be able to group rows when running a report to make them collapsible and expandable as it exists in Excel
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Allow more control over prompt UI (e.g. padding)

In Cognos Analytics we have no control over the padding between the items in a value prompt. The amount of padding is excessive and limits the number of prompt values which can be displayed when the value prompt drops down. This forces the user to...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics does not suport Google Big Query Data Nested Record Type

Google Big Query supports nested record type .Currently Cognos Analytics has no way of knowing that it is not a VARCHAR, driver will return a RECORD type as a VARCHAR with a string in a JSON format .As a result any nested field with record type re...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Template Designer for Dashboards

The built in tabbed/info-graphic templates really help users to quickly drag and drop visualisations into a dashboard without having to worry about moving/resizing objects, but users are restricted to the few that are available. Wouldn't it be gre...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration