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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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Ability to create custom Dashboard Templates

Current templates provided with Cognos 11 are a good start. But it soon becomes necessary to create your own templates. There needs to be a way to create a variety of dashboard templates.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

It would be good if Cognos Transformer 11 supports TLS 1.2

It would be good if Cognos Transformer 11 supports TLS 1.2If the cognos analytics components communicate securely between the dispatcher and gateway, Cognos Transformer 11 does not support connecting to the dispatcher by using TLS 1.2, it only sup...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Running one page of report in pdf during development

In cognos reporting, the customer wants to run a page in pdf without executing the entire report.It can be done in html but not in pdf.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

User Defined SQL within Report Studio access

Hi, Is it possible to include in future versions of Cognos the ability to allow specific users only access to read and execute report studio reports containing User Defined SQL but deny these users write access to the User defined SQL. Currently i...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

View Mode dashboard, allow changing of top or bottom #

When a user has a dashboard open in view mode, allow them to change the top/bottom function and #
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

enable mobile apps for app based CONDITIONAL ACCESS in order to integrate Cognos with MSN Intune security

Enablement of new mobile app "Cognos Analytics Mobile" and ideally the older "Cognos Analytics Reports" for app based CONDITIONAL ACCESS: This will allow integration of Cognos Analytics with Microsoft Intune security described here: https://docs.m...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 3 Delivered

Applying Security - Cognos 11 Extensions

By default, any extension installed is available to all users! Tightening security requires admin to go to each Cognos security Role and manually remove access to the extension.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Add an Organizational chart visualization as part of the reporting application

Would like to have an organizational chart visualization in the reporting application.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Support for Windows Server 2019 with CA

Clients are proposing infrastructure upgrades that include updates to their server operating systems. Those using Windows servers want to use Server 2019, which is currently not supported by Cognos Analytics (latest version R11.1.3 at time of writ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Delivered

See full report / report view / shortcut Location

I'd like copy report location into the clipboard. There is Location in the report properties. But the path is cropped. I can't select the path and copy paste to email.Shortcuts have the same problem. Shortcuts have Shortcut to property. The value ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered