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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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Disable default IBM alerts

With Cognos Analytics 11.1.4 a new feature was presented: Alert messages. There are two types. After every login default IBM "What's new" banners apper and admins are able to enable own messages. There should be a configuration parameter or switch...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Single Sign on support using Dispatcher port 9300

Log in information is required while accessing from dispatcher port 9300. Single Sign on credentials are not being passed on.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Default text in the email body

The ability to add default text to an email body when distributing reports, similar to a signature section. Currently the same text needs to be set up for every email report and would be easier for maintenance or other messages (holidays etc) if t...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extending properties box to see MUN/Expression

When you're either in the page explorer or the query explorer it is always useful to see the full MUN (for dimensional) or Expression (for relational). With the pop in / pop out properties box you can't extend the size of this box to see the full ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Error messages in Cognos BI are unclear.

When users are sharing a report url with a user who doesn't have the rights to see the report we get the following message: 'CCL-PLG-0001 Failed to load the pluggable shared library', which is really unclear. A better message would be ' The user d...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to upload images

Customer would like to allow users to upload their own images
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Active Reports not aggregating percentages

The active reports do not aggregate percentages accurately when aggregating up a hierarchy. MHT file can be provided with an example.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to upload ssl certificates to Cognos through the UI

Currently we need to open a support case in order to add SSL certificates (for data source connections etc.) to the cognos keystore. We would like to have the ability to upload the keys directly into the product.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Session ID Stored in Insecure Cookie

Looks like Session ID Stored in Insecure Cookie while accessing cognos. check attached screen shot
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Create Jobs without write permission to the report

We have a enviroment with multiple tenants. Every tenant is a complete different customer. Alle customers have the same datasource (database) and also the same basic standard reports. All the standard/basic reports are administrated trough us (Cog...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration