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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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Report Studio: Combining report views with "Report reference" page doesn't provide correct results

(Concerns Report studio page explorer) I am contacting you as we are facing issues when combining report views. We are using the new 10.2.1 functionnality that allows to reference report views in a report to combine them in the execution to have o...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable/enable application/navigation bar in cognos portal

We would like to have an option to enable/disable the cognos analytics navigation/application bards in the interface. For example by adding the check box option for navigation bar & application bar lines in manage > accounts > cognos rol...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

REST API: Datasources

/api/v1/datasources currently returns only the items shown in the main (Glass? Carbon?) UI under Manage | Data Server Connections. This is a relatively new feature. Most of my data sources are in Administration Console... | Configuration | Data So...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Salesforce two factor (2F) authentication

IBM/Cognos doesn't currently connect to Salesforce when using two factor (2F) authentication. Support checked with development folks and unfortunately at this moment CA is unable to handle any 2F authentication - be it portal access or in datasour...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

"Save to the file system" Feature for Cognos 11 Portal

Currently the Cognos 10 view in Cognos 11 has the "Save to the file system" capability when scheduling the report. I would to get his added in the normal Cognos 11 portal .
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Run reports into sharepoint location

Add option to export report outputs directly into sharepoint as target location so that users/teams can directly consume the reports from there.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Time limit on uploaded Excel spread sheets.

We want to make uploading of Excel spread sheets for Dashboards available to our customers. We have 3,000 plus users. Cognos does not have a way to set an expiry on these uploads which might cause Content store bloat. Uploaded Excel spread sheets ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

32k limit creating Data Group in Data Module

There is a 32k limit on number of items shown when creating Data Group in IBM Cognos Analytics Data Module. The limitation also includes the ability to search items outside the first 32k. So basically, if you have a data source with more than 3200...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create a subscription mechanism for reports that could work in an airgapped environment (no access to email). Idea is to show a notification to the user in the Cognos UI itself (using the bell).

The customer is generating reports on a regular basis and is not able to use the standard email distribution for those reports because of he is having an airgapped environment.Currently, the team has been using a workaround proposed by Trevor Come...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

"Allow the server to automatically load the file" in Cognos Analytics 11.2+

Modern browsers have disabled sharing of full file path for security reasons. Cognos requires full path for this option to work but no modern browser will share full path. I ask if there are plans to change how it behaves on Cognos side to allow e...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration