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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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Protect Export/Deployment File against Brute Force Attacks

Simple scenario: 1. Log in to application as an administrative user, e.g. as a user with the role Project_Developers. 2. Navigate to Manage > Content and create a new backup and protect it with the password 12345678. 3. Switch to the Restore ta...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

encode Active report lists and xtabs in JSON, not XML

currently the lists and crosstabs in an active report have thier supporting data encodeed in XML. This makes the resulting MHT file very large. All other visualzations have thier data encoded in JSON, which results in much smaller MHTs.Please cons...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

option to hide "My Credentials (Manage)" in the UI

Currently we offer Cognos as a service. The client subscribes to our product and can use Cognos as their analytics offering. Because the service is physically hosted by us we need to hide My credentials (Manage) option
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Restore Displaying User Roles in Content Manager Log Files

In previous versions of Cognos, the user's roles were output to the Content Manager log files. This is no longer being done and we now have to get screen shots from the user to see which roles he or she is in.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Save report output to Oracle Cloud object storage.

This functionality is working for AWS but not working for Oracle Cloud which we use to host Cognos Analytics. We created support ticket TS003696659 to troubleshoot this issue. Oracle Cloud should be supported along with AWS and Azure.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report "Pending status" duration of batch/interactive reports in Audit

As per number of (batch/report service) processes and affinity connections set in dispatcher tuning properties, number of parallel reports will be limited. When all configured processes and connections are in use, any new report gets submitted wil...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need Congos Workspace Advanced tool available in Cognos 11

We simply want two different reporting tools: one for IT Prof, and one for end users because in most cases, there are very complicated reports which are only be done by IT, not by end users, and also easy to segregate the security control. It's ve...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Display Custom System Use Notification at first Login

CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) and IRS (Internal Revenue Service) have similar information technology control requirements based on NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Special Publication 800-53 (Rev. 4) Secur...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Administration - Bulk Resubmit via Past Activities

Add ability to flag Failed requests and Past Activities and Resubmit en masse.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos administration show on which server a (batch)report is executed when load balancing round-robin

Multitier environment in Cognos administration show on which server a batchreport is executed when load balancing round robin. The PI42832 55069,300,624 NO SPREADING WITH ROUND ROBIN LOAD BALANCING MODEWHEN RUNNING REPORTS IN BATCH MODEis about an...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration