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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,


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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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Show shortcuts in Cognos Connection for Microsoft Office

When browsing Cognos Connection from MS Excel, the shortcuts to actual reports are not visible. Please, make them visible and enable drag&drop to Excel sheet. The reason is that our customer has separate folder structure - for developers - all...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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

capability to access backend DB through portal customization

Certain pertinent system information needs to be disseminated to the users when they access the Cognos Portal.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Recover from bad cookies during login process

Refer to case #TS000127886 and TS000083033 When Cognos Analytics encounters a bad cookie (in this case created by SecureAuth ... the cookie name has spaces in it), it acts like it got a good cookie which it was not able to use, and informs the use...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Map queryitems to the layer after imported a shapefile or geojson in mapbox

Map queryitems to the layer after imported a shapefile or geojson in mapbox
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Install Documentation - Add on for "system.web/httpRuntime"

Hello,I request an add-on to the install documentation.I woul'd like to expand the point 6 of the following description : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.doc/t_gateway_iis.html. The ...
over 6 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

Trigger jobs command line by ensuring failover

To trigger the jobs(which is a collection of reports) from external to the cognos system, we see a trigger utility available.trigger.sh http://loca lhost:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch username password namespaceID triggername We see that trigger.sh a...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI integration using LDAP group authorization takes 20 seconds to login into Cognos BI

Logon into Cognos BI takes 20 seconds when LDAP groups are used for authorizations. Please provide sub-group starting point for searching LDAP groups.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Package Specific Object Library for Queries and Data Containers

Our team uses an Object Library with a set of standard components used across reports via layout component references. This includes things like logos, headers, footers, and statically defined prompts. This works well to keep consistency throughou...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration