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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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RHEL SELinux Support required for Cognos Analytics

At this time SELinux is not a supported configuration for Cognos Analytics. Our internal default policy has changed with Redhat 7 and by default SELinux is activated. We would need Cognos Analytics to follow the default policies from Redhat 7 SELi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future 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

Can COGNOS encrypt CSV/Excel output files like as PDF

Encrypt the cognos output files like csv,excel or all formats
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Information on Parse on Cognos 10/11 Cogserver.log

We are requesting on how the Cogserver.log is parsed to poll this data to our monitoring tools. Unlike the cogconfig_response.csv, there is not defined format for the cogserver.log. Automatically polling this information to our monitoring tools fo...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change report package in properties without using Authoring

I would like to be able to change report package in report properties without accessing report authoring in the same way as it was possible in Cognos 10.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - add search capability to finding a data source

As is, in CA Dashboarding, users need to navigate through folder structure to find a data source add search to finding a data source. Adding search will allow user to find the source they want much quicker.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Relative Date on FM Package dates and measures in Data Module

Relative Dates feature is very useful for doing as of date analysis. but currently it is limited to excel file, data sets. Our users mostly use FM package to do this kind of analysis.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Notifications for Views

Users currently use watchlists to be notified when new report output is available. Watchlists are no longer and have been replaced with Notifications. Notifications do not work with Report Views. We did some testing in Cognos Analytics 11.0.7 and ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include the ID of all objects related to that object in the REST API

When using the documented REST API in 11.2.4, you get the searchPath of objects back that are related to that object. For example, when you query a folder ID using the /groups API, you get back all of the groups that are assigned to that folder. T...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Option live query mode and cache

For most reports it's not relevant, the data is not realtime. For those reports I want to cache the data (within the report) for performance reasons. Whan i can choose a render option for a report Live or Cache (with a cache frequenty) Cognos will...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration