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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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Maintenance page instead of Cognos start page only for standard users, not for admins

If we have problems with Cognos, we want to withdraw access from all users except for admins so data / reports can be tested after successful repairs. The Cognos information banner does not help, because it is overlooked. Furthermore, users can by...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Button to move between Tabs

while working with the Dashboard with more than 4 to 5 tabs. Movement of one Tab to another Tab is easier. This same feature is available in Planning Analytics workspace if you wanted to check
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow for additional (administrator defined) locations for deployment archives to be placed, other than the single location defined in Cognos Configuration

Being able to direct backups to additional locations allows for greater data protection and security of those backups. For example, being able to direct specific backups to a mapped offsite storage location, NAS, or other high availability storage...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow a dynamic filename element (ie. Date-stamp) for deployment exports so that a history of deployments can be maintained.

This will benefit environments where automated backups are defined, but it is not desireable for the existing backup to be overwritten. For example, being able to access 4 weeks history of weekly backups, without having to script a rename/copy ope...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Exact match not listed first in search results

Search is not working as expected. I would expect an exact match to be first or at least at the top of the search results. Sometimes an exact match is listed 20th in the list. Usage of filters is irrelevant.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Enable Watch Rules in Cognos Analytics

We used to be able to create watch rules in Cognos 10X but that doesn't look like a case in Cognos Analytics. Customers can upgrade / import rules along with other content (Content Store) from C10 to C11 but they cannot create new rules.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show Brand Icon in app bar

In CA 11.1.7 there was a brand icon in the appbar which was visible on every page. In CA 11.2 onwards this icon is missing and you can only see the brand icon on the startpage. As soon as you navigate to another page there is no brand icon visible...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Single Sign On using SAML2 for Cognos

SAML2 is becoming an industry standard and many vendors are moving to supporting it. Using SAML2 will provide Cognos with another method for external authentication. SAML2 is an XML-based framework for communicating user authentication, entitlemen...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Tuple and other OLAP functions need to be available in Dashboards

Need for Tuple and other OLAP functions in Dashboards
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Data Table enhancements

Like what is in Data Tables as a start, but there is functionality missing from them. I can't change the order of grouping, i.e. say I want the current biennium to show in the first row, no way to do this. Filter is lacking, it needs a deselect an...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Planned for future release