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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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Two Factor Authentication

Two Factor Authentication for Cognos.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Jupyter Notebook

Our team is a data science team and we are using Cognos Analytics to provide analytics to our clients. We do several data quality metrics using Jupyter Notebook and we would like to make it available to our clients in a dynamic mode in Cognos. We ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Make dashboard "Smart title" smarter

Currently when creating a dashboard, user adds fields to a widget and the smart title is automatically generated. However, these "smart" titles are created using the language locale of the user who created the widget. When a user with another loca...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future 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...
over 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...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Licenses report incorrect despite the execution of a consistency check

Issue: When we invite a user to PA, the user ends up in the PANS namespace. When the user is removed from PA, the user is still defined in Cognos namespace and is not removed. Expected Result: User is removed from PANS namespace and any entry in t...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Not under consideration

Ability save filtered interactive report to xls or pdf

We embed cognos report within our portal page (.NET) and so the cognos toolbars are hidden and only way to export the report output is to use a drillthrough link to export report to appropriate output format. The drillthrough report unfortunately ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under 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.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

GUI in the form of a crosstab to quickly scan data connections versus permissions, roles versus capabilities

When we need to quickly monitor/ review for example the setting of certain permissions for all dataconnections (we have about 70+), we need to open for each dataconnection the properties, go to the permission tab and write down on a separate sheet...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Changing the default save directory when saving a report or other object

when a user starts creating a report, he has to choose a package. so far so good.now when he wants to save the report, the default directory that opens to save the file is the directory of the package. That is not what we want.We want as default f...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration