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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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block garbage unprintable characters from being used in report properties

We have had a challenging problem where users have been pasting in report names, descriptions and other report or object properties in Cognos Analytics. These cause issues in delivery of report output.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future 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.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 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.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Jupyter Note book

If a run a report that has jupyter notebook pins in it as a PDF I don't see the visualizations. If I switch to run as HTML, I do see the visualizations. The report with the pins from a jupyter notebook should work the same where outputting to HT...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extract groups roles and capabilities from the system

As a system administrator I need the possibility to extract groups roles and capabilities from the system. As a modern BI tool this functionality should be available from within Cognos.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Add configuration options for Multitenancy to Cognos Analytics UI (eg: assign tenant ID to objects)

The Cognos Analytics UI does not currently have the functionality for administering multitenancy. Customers would like to see multitenancy functionality, such as assigning a tenant ID to an object, in the new Cognos Analytics UI.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

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...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More control over repeater in Dashboards

The repeater functionality in Dashboard visualization currently generates one graph per category but does not provide control over how many categories to display before moving to the next row/column. This functionality would be very useful in gett...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio:Option to change font or font size in the Event Studio email body

The font size of the text for Email tasks in Event studio is small. Please provide button on toolbar to increase or decrease the size, also add button to change the Font.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration