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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 Customization capability to Directory Administrators

Grant Customization capabilities to Directory Administrators.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

View another user dashboard without the edit option

I made a dashboard for a cognos consumer. I delivered it, the consumer when open it sees the edit/preview icon. I want the consumer to just open the dashboard, filtering the data and use the various drill down without has the ability to edit or sa...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Add Details View and list View feature from Cognos 10.x to Cognos Analytics 11 portal

In Cognos Connection in version 10 there were toolbar buttons in the portal that could switch between List View and Details View. Add this feature to Cognos Analytics 11.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Ability to monitor Cognos Product roles vs. License Roles on Cognos

We use Cognos BI across our organization for reporting purposes; we use Cognos to deliver solutions to our clients; We have long time challenged with understanding how the Cognos product roles (Eg. System Admin, Authors, Consumer etc) mapped to Co...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Challenges in Cognos schedules

Setting up of schedules or modification of schedules for reports in Cognos 11 are not user friendly as in previous versions. We are explicitly using classic view to setup the schedules as it is user friendly. If any user tries to modify the existi...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

To update the data module when there is a change in the metadata

Whenever there is change in underlying Database , we need to refresh the metadata in Cognos data server and also need to update each data module manually
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Cognos support for IBM Cloud SQL Query

Cognos Analytics does not currently support IBM SQL Query as a data source and therefore other BI tools for reporting and analytics on the IBM Cloud Object Store (COS) data that IBM SQL Query provides analytical access to.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Add color for Min, Mid, Max in Bullet Charts on Dashboards

Reports support this feature but dashboards do not. Add this feature to bullet visual in dashboards.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Need flexibility use only TLS1.2 protocol

Need flexibility use only TLS1.2 protocol. Currently Cognos 10.2.2 FP5 uses TLS1.0 and TLS1.1 as SSL protocol for both internal and external communications. It also supports TLS1.2. However due to security related issues, most of my customers want...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Its possible to enable SFTP to transfer images

PMR 00787,999,683 Hello team Please share the images folder in CA R4. In a previous case we had access to a SFTP, we're still using that shared folder to test with cubes (mdc). Its possible to enable SFTP access for this case too. Thanks in advance.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered