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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,


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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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Provide the default values for all governors in the documentation

Add the default values for all governors in the documentation
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for the latest version of the Firefox browser (68.0 and up)

This problem stems from the use of the Cognos Analytics (CA) viewer vs the classic viewer. If a report is developed in C11 it, by default will use the CA viewer. If the report property 'Run with full interactivity' is set to 'No' the report will r...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for EC Certs for LDAP Authentication

Please review Case number TS009073292. Hi, We are using SSL to communicate to LDAP Server from Cognos. LDAP team updated certificate but after that Cognos stopped connecting. I tried to import new certificate using steps mentioned at "https://www....
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Ability to use nested labels for multiple axis charts

The multiple axis charts only support concatenated labels. There are no nested labels in matrix charts. The case of multiple axis is the same as the case of a matrix of charts, CGS doesn't support nested labels (just concatenated). Provide the abi...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Users to Modify Data Sources, but Not Create New Ones

We have permissions and capabilities configured so that users are able to change their own signon passwords and refresh their own schemas. This supports us significantly in our efforts to allow self service for our users. The users with this abili...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Hide Schedule Priorities from users or govern which priority numbers users have access to

We want to apply some priorities to schedules that belong to users. As admins of the system we want some users to be able to create schedules but we want to maintain the priorities of the list. If we remove the capability then the schedules always...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Agent shouldn't run email Task if any of its Previous- Run a report(Task) failed

Ex: Agent for weekly reports. The above agent has 3 below tasks : Task 1: Run a report : Report A Task 2: Run a report : Report B Task 3: Send an email: Attach output of report A and report B and send to recipients. Issue: If task 1 executed succe...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

Hide Specific Portal Items per Group ie Schedule Priorities

We want to control the schedule priorities for some users without them having the option to change them. In order for priorities to work the users needs the capability but this also means that they can change the priority too. We would want to cre...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Alphabetical Fonts

When using Cognos Analytics users are given the default fonts and google fonts. However, these fonts are ordered based on oldest to newest imported fonts. This leads to confusion of where the fonts are and should be organized alphabetically.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Add Conformance for current Microsoft OLE DB Driver

Due to the fact that Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server (SQLOLEDB) and SQL Server Native Client OLE DB provider (SQLNCLI) are deprecated - active support for the current OLEDB driver would need to be added. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/s...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration