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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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Cognos Lifecycle Manager support for SSO and related authentication

Cognos LifeCycle Manager is a very useful tool for upgrade projects. But as of now it does not support SSO and related authentication challenges. But most of the implementations happens with SSO and/or secured protocols. It will help during upgrad...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Folder and Report Permissions interface is difficult to use

Cognos 11 Folder/Report permissions interface is very hard to use. Cognos 10.2.2 Folder/Report permissions interface is much better than Cognos 11. We can see all the user groups at one time when viewing permissions tab. It's also very easy and ef...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

non-proportional fonts

When developing a complex expression for a data item or a filter (using CASE, OR, etc.) the code can become difficult to read because text on similar lines of code does not align well. This is because the font used ("IBM Plex Sans", Helvetica, Tah...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Adding group permissions for use in customized extensions

We need the possibility like in version 12.0.0 to limiting extensions to specific roles and groups in the actual LTS Version 11.2.4. For the Version 12.0.0 this is described here: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/blogs/ti...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Add Confidentiality setting tag to Excel outputs

More and more clients are enabling and using the Confidentiality settings in Excel. This means that any Excel file opened in their environment, that does not have yet a Confidentiality setting (Public - Restricted - Confidential - Highly Confident...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Availability to see if someone else is editing the same content

Currently there is no prevention of parallel editing of objects by different users - availability to ‘lock’ content from editing or a mark on an object if someone else is also editing would be useful.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Improvement for Drillthroughs from dashbords - passing business key

Currently, only the represented data elements are passed in a drillthough. This is usually the label (caption), which is inadequate for filtering in a drill target. A solution could be, to be able to assign an attribute to each of the displayed da...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Print preview for PDF in Chrome is not currently supported

Our customer noticed that printing drill-trough reports from the Chrome Browser no longer works.During our research we found that drill-trough reports are only supported in the Internet Explorer. An APAR with the ID PH02827 was closed with the sta...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Apply Date numeric data formatting in framework model in dashboards

See case TS000115108 Improved control of numeric data formatting in dashboards A framework model with informix database and date column formatted to the format dd/MM/yyyy not being honored in dashboards. It appears like 01-01-1900 According to the...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Store the metadata in a Data Module

When importing from one environment to another one, the loaded metadata which the data modules reference to is not found. It gives you a warning when importing the deployment with the names of the Data source and Schema you need to load the metada...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration