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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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.Net Core support with Cognos 11.1.7

Our .Net Application uses cognosdotnet_10_2.dll and cognosdotnetassembly_10_2.dll to communicate to Cognos . We are in the process of upgrading our .Net Application to .Net Core . We need .Net core support with Cognos 11.1.7.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Labeling Cognos Report Outputs using Microsoft Purview Information Protection SDK

We have a business requirement to add a 'Microsoft Purview Information Protection' tags to a Cognos Report during downloads. Adding these tags to the reports will help in tracking Data Leakage in organization after reports are generated.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Ability to set the default source view of cubes

We'd like to be able to set the default source view of cubes in Report Studio. Currently, Member Tree view is the default source view in Analysis Studio. Similarly, we would like to have the default source view of 'show members only for dimensiona...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

View package properties like datasources, my permissions, contents etc.

We should be able to see all the properties/options associated with a package, like, the package datasources, my capabilities, my permissions, package configuration options (modify/remove the package configuration), package contents, etc., like we...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove alerts from cognos objects when copy

User set up alert in cognos (on report, report view,..) using 'Alert me about new versions'. When someone copy this object afterwards the alert goes with such a copy. So if the user of the copy change his prompt selection following his security pr...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under 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...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Data Server Connection Routing Rule Support

For authenticating Kerberos JDBC data server connections, it is necessary to have all routing requests handled by specific Kerberos JDBC dispatchers. In an attempt to use Group/Role routing tags for dispatcher routing, the data server connections ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

User should have access to only image folder and should not have acess to any other folde

1- restrict user access to only the images directory2- restrict user to only select image files
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom Error Message on Login Page

Ability to show custom error messages on login page without having to use SDK. We have application which has link to redirect to cognos page. More than 500 clients use this app. SSO is implemented. User information is stored in Active directory. ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Two or More of Same Table to Data Module

There are times when we need to add the same table more than once to a Data Module. For instance, we might have a fact table with order date and ship date. This would need two date dimensions to join on each date.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration