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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:


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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,


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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


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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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Disabled Active Directory account should have their saved credentials removed from Cognos content store

When an account has been disabled in Active Directory the saved credentials still exist in Cognos, meaning scheduled jobs are still running. This poses a security risk as the report is still distributed even though that account has been disabled i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request for password reset from cognos login screen

Need to raise and enhancement for resetting the password from Cognos login screen itself when ever they need. Can you please let me know the steps to raise enhancement. Business Justification: It should be possible for the user to change password ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Recent list showed in welcome page don't show Shortcuts names

We have hundreds of Shortcuts and used them to give business names to a same report. But they don't appear in the recent list with the Shortcut name but with the report source name. Creating confusion between our users.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Edit custom-control -> dataset-options in page-structure view

Editing a report in design mode exposes dataset options to be edited, e.g. query, master-details relation, name and more..Switching the report Page-view from design to structure..Dataset options of custom control are not reachable in this view.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI Support IE 11 on touch sensitive devices (MSGesture)

In IE11 on any touch sensitive device, Microsoft created new events to handle things like mouse movement, finger swipes, and light pen interactions. Prior to IE 11, these were all considered Mouse events, however in IE11 Microsoft changed their co...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Framework Manager should permit the ability to pass query items directly to stored procedures

the current Framework Manager 11.1.1 does not permit the ability to pass query items directly to stored procedures without need for prompts.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Simplify visualization libraries

Today in CA we have legacy visualization, 11.0 visualization, 11.1 visualizations and maybe soon 11.2 visualization. All my clients find it cumbersome, incomprehensible and incoherent. I think it's necessary to set up the old library conversions t...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Create logging capabilities for the mapping feature in Cognos Analytics to allow tracking usage of the feature

Create a mechanism in the product to allow administrators the ability to understand which of their customers are currently using the mapping feature in Cognos Analytics 11
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Metadata to Cloud Object Storage file output

Saving a file in Cloud Storage creates a corresponding "outputDescriptor" xml file with some metadata information of the report execution. This Infos should be saved direct in the User-defined object metadata attributes of the S3 stored object. Ev...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Advance property limitation

Please refer the Case TS006169109 where IBM Tech suggested that currently there is limitation of 20 parms that can only be added as advance property. We had a scenario where advance settings done at dispatcher level were wiped out (Report , Batch ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration