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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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Always show properties pane

In Cognos 10 and prior, when opening a report in edit mode -- you always had the properties pane available and didn't have to do anything - it was just there. In Cognos 11, when opening a report in edit mode -- if you want to change a property (sa...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Have the navbar unfolded when displaying the reportoutput

On the standard home page the navbar is unfolded, not only the icons are shown but also the text.When the output of a report is shown, the navbar is folded. Is there a way to have the navbar unfolded when displaying the output of a report.Regards,...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need connector to connect to the splunkbase

Need to upload cognos logs to splunkbase
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Missing Foreign Key Indexes in Cognos Product

Oracle recommends to have indexes on foreign keys columns to avoid locking issue at database level, we have observed Missing Foreign Key Indexes in Cognos Product tables. Please find the attached screenshot for the table and col details. Oracle's ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

The ability to set the SameSite flag to cookies

Cookies are missing some of the security flags, which indicates that the can also be sent over unencrypted network connections, accessed by different types of scripts, risk CSRF attacks and being used inappropriate by sub-domains. We discovered th...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expression for retrieving a list of PA subsets for a dimension

An expression of some sort is needed to retrieve a list of subsets for a dimension. The use case is to be able to create a dynamic report that gives users a dropdown of available subsets, allowing them to choose which one to use in their report ou...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a setting within Cognos Configuration to globally set autocomplete to off on the login screen

No description provided
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Testing, Development, Accessibility -. browser other than FireFox.

For Development, Testing, and Accessibility, I would like to request that there is another browser used possibly IE or Chrome, as Firefox in Canada is used by only 5% of the population and is actually blocked by many businesses. This makes it frus...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

enable more secure algorithm when using ThirdParty CA

When using the customer's CA they want to have all certificate to be at least in sha256 but when using the following procedure we can only use sha1 https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.do...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New forecasting functionality in R4 needs additional features

If you include a target on a line, column or bar chart the forecasting is turned off. It should draw a forecast line for the target just like it does to the #. So if target is a static number the forecast line would remain static, if the target is...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists