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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:


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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,


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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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Mobile: Run reports functionality in Cognos Mobile app

Currently, we are unable to run any standard reports via Cognos Mobile app. Active reports can only be downloaded/imported into app.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Password Protection required for excel output generated from cognos.

We have the requirement that the excel output that is generated from cognos should have a password protection or alternativelt it shoukd be non-editable for the user.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Session Time out Pop up

We need timeout popup as a warning message that session is about to expire. This will help users in saving time and avoid losing any unsaved changes.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Configuration switch to restore 10.x E-Mail behavior sending from generic mail address

In Cognos Analytics e-mails, for example Reports run by schedule and link send by mail, are send with the owner's mail address as sender. In some organisations it is necessary to have colleagues change a report, a schedule, an event, ... then the ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

compatibleProductVersion should have a "silent fail" option

When writing an extension the compatibleProductVersion object allows you to specify which versions the extension should work with. In theory this is great as it would allow the extension author to build a single package that covers multiple versio...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Column Text Rotation for Crosstabs/Lists

We would like to be able to rotate the text of a column label in crosstabs/lists. Currently, practically only 90 degrees rotation is supported (using the Direction & justification property>Writing mode). Specifically, we would like to use t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Request For (Configurable) Tree Prompt Behavior

We would like a behavior change to tree prompts, possibly as a configuration option. When a tree prompt is in single-select mode, and when a node is selected, we would like the parent nodes to be permanently greyed out and disabled for selection.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CyberArk Integration

Support Cognos Administration teams in the integration of Cognos applications into CyberArk so that Cognos application passwords are managed within CyberArk.Remediate Cognos applications so that application passwords are retrieved from CyberArk. E...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to write SQL to build Dashboard visualization

Currently there is no way to control the sql generated by a dashboard. Sometimes a complex query is required to build a visualization. Please add the ability to write queries within a dashboard.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request CA 11 Dashboards and Dashboard Maps support for Australian ABS Statistical Area level 1 mapping

CA11.06 supports most Australian Postcodes, however as post codes are defined for mail delivery they are not always reflective of geographic boundaries.The Statistical Local Area (SLA) is an Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) w...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration