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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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Manage Default Action for Reports

Currently, all newly-created reports have the Default Portal Action of "View most recent report." This can be changed for an individual report by going into its Properties > Report > Advanced, but there is currently no mechanism to globally ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

More Analytic Functions in new Dashboard Environment

The new dashboarding tool lacks some fairly basic analytic features, such as top 'n' filtering, sorting / ranking over categories, 80/20 suppression. The lack of these features makes it difficult to use the visualizations effectively.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Query optimization by not creating an extra query for summaries

In reports running with full interactivity having a dimensional source (DMR or Cube) you need to use the built in summary function in order to have a summary. This since any drill-downs will create a new data item and you can't reference a specifi...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SSO not working with 2 AD security namespaces

When logging into Cognos Analytics 11.0.4 using SSO with 2 AD security namespaces the login screen is presented but after clicking OK to a particular namespace, login fails with an error. There is the option to use a second gateway with second web...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Visualizations Vanish when at 0 (or not applicable)

If a "Summary" visualization has a "0" value, can that visualization literally not show up?
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Share report output with e-mail

In Cognos 10, we could e-mail from within a runned report and even a ad-hoc analyze from workspace advanced, In Cognos Analytics 11 This feature is missing.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Increase the data point limit to allow for more than 32767 data points (INT16_MAX)

Some applications have large amounts of data points, and to display, for example, a year of data, requires more datapoints to be possible. It would be desirable for a higher limit to be available.
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

.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

Provide live/refresh schedule connection types to excel file uploads feature and allow users to create prompts in Dashboards

Releasing many newer versions every year since 2015 is waste without thinking of adding live/schedule refresh options for excel file uploads like Tableau. This is where Cognos is mainly lagging behind because many of the excel customers creating t...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release