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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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Ability to delete users from Manage > Accounts > search results

Currently deleting users from BlueID namespace can be accomplished by navigating to Manage > Accounts > blueID and scrolling through the list of users to find the one to delete. Then the Directory Administrator needs to click the ellipsis be...
about 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.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Include default font with slashed zero

We had a customer ask us to add a custom font because all of the included options did not offer a slashed zero. I was able to add the custom font, but we were surprised that of all the Cognos included options, none of them included a font that off...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Excel .xlsb Output Format

Please add the Microsoft Excel .xlsb binary file output format as an export option in Excel. The current file output formats do not reduce the file size enough or strips all formatting.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

OIDC certificate cache removed

After a certificate was updated on the ADFS server, Cognos Analytics had to be restarted before it would accept the certificate because certificate authority certs last so long that is no need to update the intermediate and root certificates in th...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Anywhere search is offered

We've had issues with an unreliable indexing update process resulting in a dysfunctional search. As a result, it's made us realize many of the new features (data modules and other) have a complete dependency on the search to select objects (upload...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

How the check datasource(s) a FM Package is using?

How the check datasource(s) a FM Package is using in Cognos Connection? this fuctionality use to exist in v.10 , where we can see datasource by clicking on more properties of package. Case : TS001410982 was created for same and was suggested to su...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show data type for data item in GUI

There are differences between 1) drag&drop a dataitem to the canvas in design mode in reporting or drag&drop a data item to the query in query editor and 2) manually create calculated data item in the query editor. In the first case the da...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Page settings for notifications

Please add the ability for displaying a limited number of rows of notifications as set by the administrators. Further notifications can be accessed by a Next and or Back link to load the next set of messages, or to go back to the previous set. Thi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Minior modification huge change

The color palette under Network Connection visualization should have at least 2 options for coloring. The main dot and the secondary dot. https://w3-connections.ibm.com/forums/html/topic?id=bfbd2add-80b2-47d1-a683-0c439f5d03ee
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration