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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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Add a column in Audit database where the parent report name can be retrieved for a report view

We have a report for which we have created report views in "My Folder".We want to tie up all the runs of these report views to their parent reports in the audit report. For example, when we create report views with different names and run them, th...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under 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.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Data Module - Alert feature

A feature that alerts when you want to modify a data module that is opened in edit mode by someone else (Like in Excel)
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide a Security Apex / Consumer Root for Cognos Analytics

With IBM Cognos 10.x administrators had the option to set a a consumer root / security apex for their users. This allowed administrators to have an area in which the could stage releases while users only saw an specific area of the environment. Co...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

In dashboard, create prompts in mono selection

When you create a prompt in Dashboard (for all tag, or for one tag), your prompt is always with many selections.I woukd like to have the capability to have mono selection.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IIS vulnerability related to Cognos required settings

IIS vulnerability: The concern regarding "Allow unlisted file name extensions" in IIS has been raised with us previously and has been reviewed by our Development team. Unfortunately our Development team have confirmed that at this time "Allow unli...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Improving garbage collector for DB connections

Database sessions and connections ar estill open and running, even if the script was stopped on Cognos-side.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Create default Metadata settings

We would like to create default settings for all users with for the following: Metadata vs. Member tree, Single Members vs. Sets, bringing in Members vs. Children and Expanding and Collapsing on drill throughs. Example: If we wanted to make it so ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for pulling Data Source credentials from HashiCorp Vault password stores (and other cloud native password vaults)

We have requirements driven by IT to standardize on storing passwords for applications in HashiCorp Vault, a centralized password store that enables fine-grained access to the credentials. Today, we have to create crude integration scripts to main...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Under review

Member unique name for measure dimension based on memberID

Hello, we would like to base a measure dimension element for packages based no Planning Analytics cubes on memberID like for elements in non-measure dimensions. Today its based on caption which is changing with business needs so its not very stabl...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration