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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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Json Key Files for Google Big Query Connections have credentials in Clear Text (Not secured)

When creating Google Big Query connection in Cognos Analytics it requires to add the JSON Key file location in the connection string. The JSON key file is stored on the local Cognos dispatchers and the JSON files will have sensitive security infor...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Cognos Data module Lookup reference property for implementing relative time

Lookup reference property in Data Module is currently available only when creating calculations created within a table, but, not when we create calculations that reside outside of tables. We are trying to implement relative time for calculated fie...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Ability to rerun failed reports/jobs/agents in batch, from IBM Cognos Administration -> Past Activities screen

Why is it useful? In a busy production cognos analytics environments, when an unplanned outage occur, it's common to see multiple report/agent/job failures. Administrators need to go to "view run history", and rerun failed requests. It is very tim...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Change element icons within the content store navigation (as it was possible under Cognos 10.x.x)

In Congos Analytics 11 it is not possible to change the icon for example of a report or folder as it was possible under Cognos 10.x.x. If a user navigates through the Content Store he always see the same icons for reports or folders, it is not pos...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to add URL in Dashboard / Story

Hi,We would like to be able to add clickable URL in Dashboarding tools.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dashboard with multiple visualizations logs multiple records in the Audit database.

We have a dashboard report in Cognos that is created from a dataset. Ran the report once but see that it shows a 7 entries in standard audit report "Execution History By User". This gives an inaccurate run count when we send the audit report to bu...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Create DMR (dimension hierarchy) in Data Module

In Framework Manager, you can create a DMR. Can you add this functionality within a data module?
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Reporting: Copy from report output

When viewing report output in the interactive viewer, I can select items from the output and use the copy tool on the floating toolbar to copy one or more values to the clipboard. The copy feature is not available if I have selected a summary item...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Scriptable Reports: Page module configuration

A page module can be used to control prompting -- default values for specific prompts, required prompt combinations, etc. But there is no way to configure a page module to be specific to a report. This leads to having a separate .js file for each ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Preconfigure Framework Manager and Transformer for Cognos Analytics on Cloud - Dedicated

When customers are onboarded to Cognos Analytics on Cloud - Dedicated, customers have the option to download, install and configure Framework Manager and PowerPlay Transformer. The configuration is cumbersome, time consuming and IBM supplies most ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration