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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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Make searchpath available to extensions

We have an extension to add entries to the context menu (...) of reports and reportviews. These new entries should only appear in specific folders. For example there are two folders: FOLDER1 and FOLDER2. The context menu of all reports/reportviews...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future 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...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add Team content and My content to the Tabs Area in Cognos 11.2

In stead of we all need to add an Extension adding Team Content and My content to the Tabs in Cognos 11.2. Could you just add in to the Tabs Recent and Get Started. It is the most used areas and the users must go to the Hamburger Menu to acces Tea...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Shared Data Source Signons

Due to the heightened levels of security, we are forced to change our credentials to data sources often. In Cognos Connection, we can associate multiple signons to each data source and each signon is defined by a name. It would be helpful if the s...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Option to disable Pin command on dashboard visualizations toolbar

Sended here by IBM support team. Some people can Pin visualizations outside the dashboard context. And this option can compromise our Data Management policies.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

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...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics 11.x SDK support for .Net Core 6

Infor utilizes Cognos in a Multi-Tenant Cloud environment. All of the Infor applications running in our MT Cloud environment are required to handle standard API calls that are required to add/update/delete a tenant within that application. There a...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

ALL Mail recipients in (Job) schedules visible at first sight

When creating a schedule, the user has the possibility to use main mail recipient, cc recipient, and bcc recipient. When manipulating a schedule later, ALL defined recipient types (main, cc, bcc) should show up at first sight, without necessity to...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add REST API for explorations

Add REST API for explorations. This exists for reports but not dashboards. We currently grant access for reports in our applications using this API functionality but unable to for explorations.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Dark mode for Cognos Analytics

I love the dark mode homepage for the application, however the rest of the apps are all in a light mode. Would love to have a dark mode that is easier on the eyes. The user should be able to choose dark oder light mode and the value should be save...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration