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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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Island (Enterprise Browser)

Many companies are migrating to "Island" for increased security, and we would like this browser to be supported by Cognos. Thanks.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Autoretrieve general disable

We use Cognos Analytics for reporting and analysis. Currently there is a setting in Cognos called 'Automatically populate values list' that needs to be disabled every time a new report is created. We need to be able to generally disable it once an...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[Enh] Allow an option to display filters being used inside of a workspace advanced report

When operating in other studios (such as Query Studio or Analysis Studio) any filters that are applied are shown directly within the report When a report gets run for workspace advanced filters that are applied do not get shown would like this fea...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cogserver.log needs to populate complete import/export log details without delay

Issue: Cogserver.log needs to populate complete import/export log details without delayDescription:We are using trigger utility to trigger the import and export deployment jobs. We noticed that i) cogserver.log is not populated the complete import...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CA Load Balancing

Load Balancing and High availability in Cognos Analytics.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extract groups roles and capabilities from the system

As a system administrator I need the possibility to extract groups roles and capabilities from the system. As a modern BI tool this functionality should be available from within Cognos.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

More meaning APAR Software version

When reviewing an APAR on IBM site, there is a "Software version" field. This field invariable lists some meaningless value. For example, https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH42408?myns=swgimgmt&mynp=OCSSTSF6&mync=E&cm_sp=swgimgmt-...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 Not under consideration

Removing Email Address from Run History Details Page

As part of the GDPR regulations that are coming into effect, we are required to remove any email addresses that might be exposed in Cognos Connection. When a report is scheduled / run in the background and set to be emailed to a specific email add...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Job queue visible to any Author with access to the Job/Report

At our university, each department has its own reporting team, and they are responsible for scheduling their own jobs and reports. However, Cognos only allows a developer to see the reports that they themselves scheduled -- not the entire departme...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Need more logging information in Cognos Administration Tool

In the "Past Activities" (IBM Cognos Administration‬ > Status > Past Activities),we can see the status of past scheduled reports.The customer also want to see the following information in this function.-Past all executed reports.(Not only ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration