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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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Non-Path Traversal for PDF viewer

Corporate Web Application Firewalls consider the use of path traversal syntax to be a security violation. Cognos 11.2.1 uses path traversal to render pdf reports interactively. This violates standard web security implementations.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 3 Not under consideration

Authorize multiple custom menu-items (extension) in navigation panel as alternative to portal pages

In Cognos 10 we made use of portal pages a lot. Since these portal pages are not available anymore in Cognos Analytics 11 (at least there not actively supported) we are looking for a good alternative. Our goal is to create a menu structure within...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under 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.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ability to select the ranges for heat palette for geographic heatmap

Ability to define ranges for heat palette in mapping capabilities.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Administrative function to view users logged on

Ability for the administrator to view who is logged on to the system.Can currently see reports running and scheduled but can not see the users. One reason would be to see and notify users that they system needs maintenance.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to control Size & Overflow of Chart Objects on DASHBOARD via enhanced controls

Need ability to actual set Size and Overflow properties of Dashboard objects, such as Width and Height of a Bar Graph or a Heat Map through property similar to what we have in REPORTS or in Report Studio. Currently the Size can be changed only via...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Jobs: add load dataset step

Ability to add a load dataset step to a job
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

"Add me to the Alert list" functionality missing in Cognos Analytics

With Cognos 10.2.x Users could subscribe to Alerts occurring in regards to Agents using the "Add me to the Alert list" feature in the More... Dialogue of an Agent. With Cognos Analytics this functionality can only be accessed if Cognos Connection ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Reintroduce the Proven Practice documents

IBM used to provide a number of proven practice documents that covered reporting, Admin, modelling etc. While the link to the webpage still exists in the on line documentation, the page is redirected to to an unrelated site. Documentation page - h...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Cognos for Microsoft Office capability to import nested contents from Cognos dashboard reports to Excel - TS000938522

On Cognos Analytics for MSO add-in v11, layouts and formats of Imported Contents from Cognos list cross-tab reports or dashboards with nested contents, are changing in any Microsoft document. Formatted cells change fonts, Merged cells in Cognos ar...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration