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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...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Set the company template as default

We have migrated to 11.0.12 recently and would like to make a template for our company and make it a standard template for all the reports. After the template creation we would like to make it selected by default for all users so they don't have t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have Sticky Filters on Dashboards

I would like to have a dashboard with defined filters where users could view the Dashboard and in view mode change the filter values and NOT have to save the Dashboard. The next time they open the Dashboard, it would have their last filter values....
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Added a "callout" type text box to point a textual comment

Added a "callout" type text box that would make it easier to point a textual comment to a specific report element (e.g. bar in a graph, row or column in a cell)
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow users to move columns in interactive viewer

Users have the ability to set their own groups and subtotals within the interactive viewer. If I provide a simple list report to be used in the interactive viewer and one user wants to group by Customer and another wants to group by Project Manage...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Prevent groups from accessing 'Send Report by Email' delivery option

Our client deals with very sensitive data that cannot be sent over email. We would like the ability to restrict certain groups from using email as a delivery method because of this. However we would still like to avail of email for job notificatio...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use Reportpath() function to construct url in Cognos Analytics

Reportpath() function returns the path of the report as /content/folder[@name=""]/report[@name=""] and this was used to construct report url dynamically in C10.2.2. but this path cannot be used to construct url in cognos analytics as the url const...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Dashboard drill though changes

When I attempt to connect a drill through report to a dashboard, my only choices to pass to the drill through report are values in the dashboard. My drill through report has a prompt for Current, Official Report or Effective date, I would like to ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to control the sequence of loading in-memory aggregates from Dynamic Query Analyzer for Dynamic Cubes

Would like the ability to control the sequence of how in-memory aggregates are loaded for Dynamic Cubes. Currently you can only pick and the sequence they are loaded is not predictable.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add nested menu items for the actions menu

At the moment any menu item added to com.ibm.bi.contentApps.listViewMenu will appear as an additional row. There is a finite amount of space. I'd like to have an option to add nested menu items where clicking the row would open additional menu ite...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted