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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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Can COGNOS encrypt CSV/Excel output files like as PDF

Encrypt the cognos output files like csv,excel or all formats
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add JSON as new report output format

Besides HTML, Excel, Excel data, CSV, PDF and XML there should be another output format for reporting: JSON
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Cognos LDAP provider as namespace then it does not handle referrals

PMR Ticket TS001123363 Unable to authenticate LDAP user across multiple domain. From cognos content manager. Version 10.1x
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disallow ability to run report in background

There is currently no way to explicitly deny a role the ability to run a report in the background. We need roles to have the ability to run as excel, pdf, html but NOT in the background. Currently we can only restrict their ability to 'run as' alt...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Google Docs plugin for Cognos

Require plugin for supporting Cognos within Google Docs/Sheets/Slides.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Information on Parse on Cognos 10/11 Cogserver.log

We are requesting on how the Cogserver.log is parsed to poll this data to our monitoring tools. Unlike the cogconfig_response.csv, there is not defined format for the cogserver.log. Automatically polling this information to our monitoring tools fo...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add box to Dashboard texts

Add surround marker and column value labels with boxes - Screenshot Add Report like Font and colors in Axis Labels in Column Chart You have added that in KPI widget in 11.2.0 but not in others Problem - QBRs are going to Power BI
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - add search capability to finding a data source

As is, in CA Dashboarding, users need to navigate through folder structure to find a data source add search to finding a data source. Adding search will allow user to find the source they want much quicker.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Qualify Source Attributes in Dashboard When Defining a Drill Through

When defining a drill through for a widget in a dashboard, the items available for mapping to the target parameters needs to be qualified to determine the data source or metadata from which the item was associated with. In situations where you hav...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show Folders in Data Module Relationships Diagram

Complexed data models with many tables, views, and relationships are difficult to work with in Data Modules. To improve the users' modeling experience, models need a way to visually organize their tables and relationships - similar to how Framewor...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration