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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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Add a snapshot of a report output to an existing email or Slack message stream

Provide an option that would take a snapshot of a report output (with markups) and copy it to the clipboard. This would facilitate augmenting an existing message exchange with additional report snapshots as opposed to requiring a new share reque...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Access Members from Multiple AD Forests

Cognos is unable to search members across Active Directory forests. Cognos must have a separate namespace configured in Cognos Connection for each forest. This creates overheads on Administration by maintaining multiple namespaces.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Macro Functions in Send Email Sections

Provision to add following dynamic text to be report output file distributed via email1. DATE or YY/MM2. Source of the Report (Package Name or Cube Name)3. As of Date/Time4 .Data source Name
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

OpenID Connector for F5 APM

Setup an F5 APM OIDC connector like you have for ADFS, Okta, Etc.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Be able to have more than 25 Advanced Settings

We now have more than 25 Advanced Settings, but there are only 25 lines that you can enter Advanced Settings and there is not a way to have more lines. Please create an enhancement that allows more then 25 Advanced Settings. Thanks
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improper Session Management (PMR-TS007941522)

security can be tightened. Multiple sessions of are restricted.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

User should be able to login into Cognos application only one browser at a time and one desktop at a time. Should not be able to login Cognos application simultaneously in 2 or more desktops.

Security can be tightened, and user multiple sessions can be restricted.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Autocomplete enabled for the sensitive field - Cognos 11.1.7 IF9

This gives more security and userid/password is safe from intruders.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

CA 11.2 all quick launch hide to be turned off/on

Currently you can hide the quick launch in the portal, when you log back in the quick launch is no longer hidden. Would like have stay hidden until I choose to unhide it.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Return the Assigned Term when searching the Glossary for the Cognos Report element

System: Cognos Framework Manager, Cognos Report ViewersActor: BI Model developer or Report user The developers of our customer use a variety of abbreviations in Cognos Report Headers for measures and attributes, especially when there are a lot of ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration