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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 Connection Table Count Filter - don't display empty user schemas

Filter schemas listed under Data Server Connections to only display those with objects under to be pulled. There's no sense to list all possible data containers if most of them are empty and just throws a warning. Additionally extraneous entries c...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add controls to interactive report running message

As a client, I would like the ability to control what appears when the user sees the pop-up when running a report interactively in the Report Authoring tool. As the report loads the prompt page, it says the report is running and gives the user an ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Email Notification for Cognos FIx Packs

It would be nice to have an email notifying users when new Fix Packs are available for Cognos Business Intelligence
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Audit - Submitted time for a report/job missing

Mail from Cognos:"I have checked with a senior resource, and looked up the tables in the Admin guide for Cognos, andconfirmed that submitted time isn't recorded directly in any of the tables and columns available in Audit Database.The technote I h...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Increase the data point limit to allow for more than 32767 data points (INT16_MAX)

Some applications have large amounts of data points, and to display, for example, a year of data, requires more datapoints to be possible. It would be desirable for a higher limit to be available.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Support for SAML Single Logout (SLO)

The SAML protocol is a popular choice for enabling SSO and contains a built-in feature called SAML Single Logout (SLO). This additional protocol helps address the problem of orphaned logins. SLO allows a user to terminate all server sessions estab...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove/Hide "Modified" date in the portal

Remove/Hide "Modified" date in the portal
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Prompt choice of Data Sets

In Cognos Analytics we can create a Data Source and in that Data Source define multiple connections. Then if a report is developed using that Data Source, at report runtime we will be prompted to choose which connection to use. Similar functionali...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

allow multiple return urls in OIDC namespace

Since current cognos OIDC namespace only allows 1 Return URL, we can only access cognos using the domain name specified in return URL, which is normally gateway URL. If we need to access cognos via Dispatcher URL, we need to create additional name...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Tool tip shows in Package but not in Report and Dashboard

Single installation on Windows for CA 11.1.3 After adding the "Screen Tip" in FM and publishing it to Cognos portal.- Open the package in Report, on left panel it shows but drag the item to Report working area it doesn't show. The issue happens in...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration