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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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IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 or 11.2.x versions signed install and Signed DLL and exec files

IT security Team is asking us to All cognos install files -DLL and exe needs to be signed. That way it can be trusted from security standpoint of view
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics Support for AIP (Azure Information Protection)

Azure Information Protection (AIP) is a cloud-based solution that enables organizations to discover, classify, and protect documents and emails by applying labels to content. AIP is part of the Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) solution, and ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 2 Future consideration

Adding auto-sync to add a group users from OKTA without importing .cvs file

The IT/admin wants to be able to add multiple or a group of users from OKTA (Open ID) on CA instead of one by one, intuitively they'd do so directly from the 'add' button and expect to see the list (of user groups) for selection. Benefits: this ne...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Report Studio User Interface

In Report Studio, I' would like to have more options to customize the panels displayed when showing details of the queries: 1. Allow to change width of panels ‘Data Items’ vs ‘Detail Filters' 2. Allow to change height of the 3 panels ‘Detail Fi...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

optionally disconnect filter in filter banner from widget in dashboard window

if I set a filter in the filter banner for a tab or for all tabs, this filter is valid for all widgets in the dashboard window. It would be nice if we can, like we can disconnect widgets from each other, also disconnect a widget from a filter in t...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Add box to Dashboard texts

Add surround marker and column value labels with boxes - Screenshot Add Report like Font and colors in Axis Labels in Column Chart You have added that in KPI widget in 11.2.0 but not in others Problem - QBRs are going to Power BI
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Include Documents in Archiving

Content archiving is currently only supporting report output versions. Uploaded documents from Cognos for Microsoft Office (ClassID 180) are not picked of the archiving background task and cannot be archived to an external repository like fileshar...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Make searchpath available to extensions

We have an extension to add entries to the context menu (...) of reports and reportviews. These new entries should only appear in specific folders. For example there are two folders: FOLDER1 and FOLDER2. The context menu of all reports/reportviews...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Restrict the number of recipients when bursting

Cognos can't restrict the number of recipients when bursting. This is currently addressed by looking at the limits imposed at the SMTP level, or informing Cognos users of this limitation. This helps for short term but if we have a new user who mak...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add Team content and My content to the Tabs Area in Cognos 11.2

In stead of we all need to add an Extension adding Team Content and My content to the Tabs in Cognos 11.2. Could you just add in to the Tabs Recent and Get Started. It is the most used areas and the users must go to the Hamburger Menu to acces Tea...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration