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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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All the Report Studio Icons are only in Black and White in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1 R7 (LTS)

After the upgrade to the latest IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1 R7 (LTS) version the development team found that all the Report Studio Icons (i.e. Sources /Toolbox/Data Item /Filters are only in Black and White. The Themes in the Customization are IBM C...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report Delivery Option To SFTP Server

Many integration can be done using file exchange between two systems. Cognos can be used to extract data from the source system to be delivered to external system for ingestion. Currently, the only option to deliver data file to another sftp serve...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Publish Package should allow you to enrich the package at time of publish

Currently to enrich the package you have to go to package and run the enrich package. If I am in publishing the package, I would like to be able to enrich the package there without having to open the Cognos browser.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable "Save as Report View" option on prompt page

The various toolbar option at the top right corner of the Cognos Viewer output page can only be utilized for the HTML format type reports. For the Excel and PDF format report as they are directly downloaded or opened without any output Cognos View...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update embeded websphere server for CORS support

The cross origin resource sharing (CORS) cannot be enable in the WebSphere 8.5.5.8 server embedded in Cognos 11. Based on WebSphere site, the CORS are supported on WebSphere version 8.5.5.9.In Cognos 10, it was possible to configure the CORS heade...
about 8 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

Batch job to convert Dashboards to new Cognos Version

When IBM deploys a new series release (e.g. 11.0, 11.1, 11.2), users are prompted to resave the dashboard to 'convert' it to the new series and stop the convert/save message from reappearing on the screen. We are an OEM shop with many clients usin...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

dynamic report output caching

DQM in combination with dynamic cubes brings exceptional caching capabilities. One aspect of the report execution process which is not cached in this system is the rendering of report spec and XML. In order to determine if the query can consume a ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Subscribe to Trigger

Allow users to subscribe to receive a report based on a trigger schedule
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration