Skip to Main Content
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


ADD A NEW IDEA

Cognos Analytics

Showing 3667

Removing the dataset upload size limit.

Etisalat wants to migrate their dashboards and reports to Cognos Analytics but are restricted by the dataset size limits.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 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...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Remove _en-us suffix when sending reports in Event Studio

I'm sending reports in excel format to a system to automatically load the data. However, the system does not like the suffix _en-us, specifically the dash.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard List Visualization Direction Property

Add a property to the list visualization that allows users to specify a vertical or horizontal list.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to use custom fonts in Cognos Analytics On Demand

Many times customers want to customize report look and feel to corporate standard. Fonts are one part of that. At the moment in Cognos Analytics On Demand there is no possibility to load custom fonts that corporate is using.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Multi-tenancy support with Azure AD (openID connection)

We want an option where we can tell Cognos to ignore the issuer value. Issuer value is only needed if we need to make access based decisions based on tenant id. In our environments we have no requirement of using this functionality. This seems to ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Be able to identify and monitor "scheduled" executions in the Audit database

Please also refer to Support Case "TS003490098" for more details. Our Cognos admin team regularly uses the Audit database to monitor Cognos activity by the end users. However, we have recently discovered that one important end user reporting behav...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Bring back support for Virtual View Manager (ODBC) data source

In Cognos 10.2.2 we were using IBM Cognos Virtual View Manager (ODBC) also known as Composite (ODBC) data source to select online a WSDL interfaceand also in Data Manager as package data source.In Cognos Analytics VVM has been deprecated in 11.0.2...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

External Application Server support for Cognos Analytics 11

Cognos Analytics 11 has taken off external application server support for its application to be deployed on, till Cognos 10.2.1 we had been using WebSphere ND to host the p2pd and now WebSphere Liberty is being offered out of the box as the only o...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration