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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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DUO with OpenID

Client would like to use DUO 2 Factor Authentication with Cognos Analytics.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

How the check datasource(s) a FM Package is using?

How the check datasource(s) a FM Package is using in Cognos Connection? this fuctionality use to exist in v.10 , where we can see datasource by clicking on more properties of package. Case : TS001410982 was created for same and was suggested to su...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

reuse objects and queries

It used to be that I could copy an object, chart, crosstab, etc, from one report to another. If the reports shared the same query1 name, it would use that query1 name. This was great! But you guys changed it. Now, no matter what, when I copy an ob...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Page settings for notifications

Please add the ability for displaying a limited number of rows of notifications as set by the administrators. Further notifications can be accessed by a Next and or Back link to load the next set of messages, or to go back to the previous set. Thi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy report without assigning new CAM ID

Our team uses a folder within Team Content (ex. BreakFix) in production to work on fixes and enhancements to existing reports in other Team Content folders (ex. Source) in production. We copy the report from Source folder to BreakFix, make the upd...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prevent defined files from being deleted during installation

Request for an configurable options of files and folders, that are not deleted during installation or upgrade situation.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need different types of slicers in dash boarding in cognos Analytics like we have currently in Market

Please can you provide multiple type of slicers in Cognos Analytics dash boarding. More properties to control Visualization Properties. We need drop down as well as select all to pop up automatically or should have ability to control that in prope...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More meaning APAR Software version

When reviewing an APAR on IBM site, there is a "Software version" field. This field invariable lists some meaningless value. For example, https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH42408?myns=swgimgmt&mynp=OCSSTSF6&mync=E&cm_sp=swgimgmt-...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 Not under consideration

Capability to Cancel a Page Preview query in progress

When working in report studio, in the upper right, the author has a choice of working in three different page modes: page design, page preview and page structure. When in page preview mode, sometimes after making an edit, the query can take a long...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Remove or encrypt data that is stored in dashboard JSON specification when using a data element in the color slot of a visualization with color consistency turned on

This will prevent data security concerns when distributing packages that contain dashboards
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted