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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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Do not log error messages in cognos logs when users use cancel button in prompt pages

we would like to avoid having errors in logs due to users using cancel button in prompt pages. Today when they click cancel in prompts there is error in logs/audit which we do not consider normal as it is standard user activity.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Administration - Bulk Resubmit via Past Activities

Add ability to flag Failed requests and Past Activities and Resubmit en masse.
over 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

Repetitive values on axes of bar charts

For bar charts, when the x/y-axis range is less (<10) then the values on the axis tends to repeat. This happens because cognos auto range rounds off the numbers. The current chart auto-grouping of range works fine if the data range is large com...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release

Action Button with jump back function

I can jump with Action Button command from one Page to other page, even in another book. We need the possibility to know for the user, from which book/page he came, that he can jump back. That is very important to create slim and fast applications...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle Java 8 for Cognos 10.2.2

Client would like to know if and when Cognos 10.2.2 would start supporting Oracle Java 8
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Hover Not Working

When using a dashboard visualization that contains a shape, the value does not appear when the mouse hovers over the visualization. The current workaround is to: create two identical summaries add a shape to one summary place the non shape summary...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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

LDAP Object Filter in Cognos Connection / Administration

We have a very flat LDAP structure, with 500.000 Users in one OU. Everytime I want to add/ remove users in Cognos Connections / Administration, all 500.000 Users were parsed which leads to timeouts or extremly long waiting periods. We need the pos...
over 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