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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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Enable local cache for Vendor Specific functions

Problem Statement : Local cache does not work when user defined or vendor specific functions are used in queries. Description: Currently there is a functionality in COGNOS FM or reporting tool to turn on local cache to re- use query cache for subs...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics: Ability to expand the height of Dashboard Filter

Hi, I would like to suggest adding the feature to expand vertically the dashboard filter in Cognos Analytics to give a different view when filter is beyond the normal horizontal expansion. Regards, Regino Ilano
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Optimizations of the "Send report by email" dialog

When creating schedules or run a report you can set options for sending report by email. Here are some suggestions for improvement for this dialog: 1) If we enter the first five digits of the user ID and click on 'Search directory', some users wer...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Macro to get user groups and or roles in cognos or ad

For the moment in reporting and fm there are only macro that are able to get security information of the user logged in. Example:CSVIdentityNameList(). I would like to have a macro that shows roles and groups (at least inside cognos namespace)...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Seeing the contents of user's profile is not possible in Manage but only in old admin console

We try to use only Manage. In general just please add all functionalities from console to Manage. Detail: in Manage > Accounts when you see a user you can't see its content but instead just properties. This can be seen only in old Administratio...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enable customization of authoring perspective

The new black and white design in Authoring (Report Studio) has caused massive annoyance at some of our customers. The reasons given were: generally confusing color is missing in the icons windows (e.g. expression editor) are not clearly delimited...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Rest API for security group

Hello, We need an entegration with our security team. We did it before other BI tools with their rest api. But in Cognos we cannot use security group with members. Our security team don't want to use SDK because of our microservice standarts. You ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Being able to generate output in Excel format for an Audit report

Create Execute reports, dashboards and stories by package for past 30 days as a normal report (in addition Active report)
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Optimizations of the "Run in background" dialog

There are simply too many clicks required to run reports in background. When I activate 'Run in background', more functions pop up. To get to the 'Delivery' container, I have to scroll down first. If I then activate 'Send report by email' and have...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Increase the limit to add more than 20 parameters in System level in Cognos Admin console.

Hi Team, We had an activity recently to Un-register and add the dispatchers again in Cognos11 , but we lost all existing parameters after the task. And we decided to add all parameters in System level Instead of Individual dispatchers , but we cou...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration