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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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Data Server Metadata - Kerberos Connection

Kerberos, or other passwordless connections are becoming the standard authentication method for data sources. Data Servers are requirements to use web-based modelling. However, to pull metadata in a data server connection requires the user to have...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Chart Legend

The legend position for the chart (pls refer legendpositionvertical pic), the legend is horizontal, we used to see in vertical in 11.0.6. Is there any way we can render it to vertical position on right side.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel options in cognos viewer

Veiw in excel options shows as excel 2007,but if cognos supports 2010 version also. why can't it be independent of version likeView in Excel Data OnlyView in Excel
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

reuse objects and queries

It used to be that I could copy an object, chart, crosstab, etc, from one report to another. If the reports shared the same query1 name, it would use that query1 name. This was great! But you guys changed it. Now, no matter what, when I copy an ob...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Cache parameterized queries if default values set

Refresh Report Output: When scheduling a report via Job, if we select ‘refresh the report cache', it only refreshes prompt page of the report. How could we refresh report output if data latency is acceptable?
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

LCM times out or crashes after unspecified amount of time

my team has noticied with 11.07 LCM install and 11.0.10 that after an undetermined amount of time that the LCM component will time out or crash this needing to have its service restarted. Ticket: TS000999719 was opened for this for review.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User/Group reporting

Need the ability to report groups and their members. Ticket TS001005683 was submitted for this but is now closed.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unreliable Component Combinations

Issue: When elements have multiple Namers or multiple Describers, screen reader precedence differs wildly. To minimize these differences and ensure consistent screen reader output, follow ANDI's methodology. Elements are using more than 1 "Namers"...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Misuse of label tags

Issue: Some screen readers will not announce an explicit label on non-form elements. Therefore, the associating <label> may not be read as part of the accessible name of this element. Ask: The search box to be put in a form element so the f...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

remove the before and after pseudo elements from the CSS

Issue: There are tags which use the before and after pseudo elements and for people who need to turn off CSS, it may cause the web page to not function properly. Ask: Can we remove the before and after pseudo elements from the CSS?
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration