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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


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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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Fix Output Version sort issue

We have burst output being saved, but when viewing the saved output versions of the reports often they are not sorted as specified by our burst key. When running the job that bursts the reports, the report output versions are being generated in or...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

11.1 visualization like stacked column charts needs format enhancements

For pixel perfect reporting visualizations needs to give a compliant look on a report page (PDF or HTML) in specific if multiple visualizations are used on the same page. The current options for formatting the visualizations are still too few. In ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Implement Save to filesystem when running report interactively in background in Cognos Analytics

Implement Save to filesystem when running report interactively in background in Cognos Analytics
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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

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 ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 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...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parameterized url with Azure OIDC has limitation of 4096 Bytes

Unlike IBM Directory Service (Or some Local Authentication Providers) Azure AZ supports only 4096 Bytes in the request url in its authorization end Point. This is causing issue with existing report with large columns passed to Cognos as query stri...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

CSV or Excel Report Output or Report from a Schedule as Report or Dashboard Data Source

Currently there is no option of a Medium Size Datasource to develop a Report or Dashboard. Spreadsheets can be used but refreshing it in a daily frequency is a problem and not automated. Instead, a report as a datasource or a report output as a Da...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Have an option to search in a location, a subdirectory

Sometimes there are too many results for the search engine. It will be interesting to limit the search to a subdirectory.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos - Simultaneous Login

It was observed that parallel session and authorization check is possible. It was observed that the user can login into the account simultaneously from 2 different browsers.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration