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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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Add configuration setting to stop saving the descriptor file when a report is saved to the file system

a configuration to avoid the creation of the XML descriptor file when creating the output file (example: My report-en-us.pdf will have a descriptor file named My report-en-us_desc.xml)
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

G Suite integration with Cognos

CAFE or Go Office do not support Google sheets/ Google docs. They are supposed to work only with Microsoft office suite. However, we need to make go office or café work with G-Suite. That was concluded by case TS000281895
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Exporting Users with EMail ID's

Hi Team, We have a customers who require user Extraction along with email ID's every now and then. So it would be helpful if this feature is added.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

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

Hiding Visualization in Dashboard when there is no data

Sometimes on selecting a particular filter, a visualization has no data. It will still occupy space on the dashboard and show nothing. It would be great to be able to hide this visualization when it has no data (how lists behave in report when the...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DataItem's and Filter's names changing/notchanging both in C11.0.5 and C11.0.6

Data items' names are changing in copied queries.Flter's names are changing in copied queries. Data item's names within the calculations are changing in copied queries. Also they are NOT changing when the queries are reffered. Feature of changing ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard,Waterfall graph:How to move X-axis item names.

The X-axis item names are displayed at the bottom. When many items are lined up on the X-axis, the problem is that the user's line of sight moves significantly. I would like to add a function to move the item name on the X-axis.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Alert on Cryptographic key near expiry

As per http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21341113 the cryptographic keys expire after 365 days (default setting), we recently fell foul of this as our keys expired and Cognos stopped working. We would like an alert when these are ne...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Island (Enterprise Browser)

Many companies are migrating to "Island" for increased security, and we would like this browser to be supported by Cognos. Thanks.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Vertical Bullet Visualization

In the Dashboard tool, I would like to have a vertical Bullet Graph. The actual Bullet Graph seem only offer the possibility to display it horizontally.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release