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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


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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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audit logs should distinguish user cancel from report failure

Our executives get monthly updates on report failure rates from our Cognos BI hosted solution. We find that a significant portion of the reports that are recorded in audit tables (cogipf_runreport) are actually user cancels. In order to develop ac...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide SDK interface to automate theme and extension maintenance. (CA11)

Provide a programmable interface (SDK) to partially deploy themes and extensions to environments as well as create the needed settings to roles and rights.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Canvas element is not accessible with keyboard

If <canvas> element is interactive with mouse, it's not keyboard accessible because there is no focusable fallback content
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Cognos LDAP provider as namespace then it does not handle referrals

PMR Ticket TS001123363 Unable to authenticate LDAP user across multiple domain. From cognos content manager. Version 10.1x
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disallow ability to run report in background

There is currently no way to explicitly deny a role the ability to run a report in the background. We need roles to have the ability to run as excel, pdf, html but NOT in the background. Currently we can only restrict their ability to 'run as' alt...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When adding chart values change the background behind the value itself

When chart values are added in certain visuals it is very hard to read the values. Giving the ability to change the background colour will improve the functionality. See image for example.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Add a confirmation message for running reports in background

In Cognos 10 when running a report in the background, a confirmation screen is shown afterwards with the details of what was selected. In Cognos 11.0.6 we no longer get this screen so a user does not know what they selected worked. This is especia...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Authenticated Stored XSS due to malformed URLs in Dashboard and Story link widgets

Stored cross-site scripting vulnerabilities arise when user input is stored and later embedded into the application's responses in an unsafe way. An attacker can use the vulnerability to inject malicious JavaScript code into the application, which...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Capture number of Rows returned for a report in Audit package

In the Audit Package, we are looking for a field to show the number of rows generated in a particular report under the "Run Report" query subject. This will help us to do the performance analysis on the reports. For example, the report ran for 60 ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Qualify Source Attributes in Dashboard When Defining a Drill Through

When defining a drill through for a widget in a dashboard, the items available for mapping to the target parameters needs to be qualified to determine the data source or metadata from which the item was associated with. In situations where you hav...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration