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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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Ability to managed Administration password by Wallets and SFTP or FTP process

Many clients are tightening security around how administration passwords and secrets are managed including storage. My client has stringent security protocols as such would like to have the ability to managed passwords via Wallet and SFTP process ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Future consideration

Recent list showed in welcome page don't show Shortcuts names

We have hundreds of Shortcuts and used them to give business names to a same report. But they don't appear in the recent list with the Shortcut name but with the report source name. Creating confusion between our users.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Framework Manager should permit the ability to pass query items directly to stored procedures

the current Framework Manager 11.1.1 does not permit the ability to pass query items directly to stored procedures without need for prompts.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Simplify visualization libraries

Today in CA we have legacy visualization, 11.0 visualization, 11.1 visualizations and maybe soon 11.2 visualization. All my clients find it cumbersome, incomprehensible and incoherent. I think it's necessary to set up the old library conversions t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Additional Audit info needed

My business users would like to see how users are exporting the reports. Are they using excel pdf, csv. How often this is occurring.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multi select drop down filter like MS Excel

Currently when user looks for multi select prompts, we have only check box and List drop down available. It would be good to have option to have drop down Multi select feature similar to MS Excel to select multiple values.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Hiding Visualization in Dashboard when there is no data

Sometimes on selecting a particular filter, a visualization has no data. It will still occupy space on the dashboard and show nothing. It would be great to be able to hide this visualization when it has no data (how lists behave in report when the...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

G Suite integration with Cognos

CAFE or Go Office do not support Google sheets/ Google docs. They are supposed to work only with Microsoft office suite. However, we need to make go office or café work with G-Suite. That was concluded by case TS000281895
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Implement Save to filesystem when running report interactively in background in Cognos Analytics

Implement Save to filesystem when running report interactively in background in Cognos Analytics
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos job trigger using Apache Airflow

we would like to have functionality, to trigger cognos jobs using apache airflow.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration