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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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Extend filter name cutoff in report creation

A user opening a report might want to look at the query details and quickly see exactly what is going on in the report. However, because the filter names seem to have a 50 char limit on the display, nearly every filter built into a data module is ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Internal IP disclosure in SOAP response

We have noticed that internal IP are being displayed in the SOAP response from the server. This has been identified as a security issue. More information can be found via case TS002431041.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update "Recent Cards" on homepage to browse by pathing rather than object ID.

A report is created for a large number of users to consume all through-out the day named Report Alpha. Developers later update Report Alpha without versioning the name of the report so that all email links and links within other user interfaces st...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

AI Assistant Languages

In Cognos Exploration currently only english language is supported, other languages including German, French and Dutch are also needed by our clients
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Cognos mobile for Blackberry Dynamics: support a connection via a proxy

The current version of Cognos Mobile for Blackberry Dynamics only supports a direct connection. For security reasons we are using a proxy sever and have connection problems using de Cognos mobile app.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Nav Bar size after opening reports or dashboards

When ever a user opens a report or a dashboard, the icons on the Nav Bar shrink and their labels disappear. This will make it hard for users to operate the Nav Bar especially if they are new in Cognos and trying to get familiar with it. This will ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

easy to show the SQL query and result

Currently, Cognos can show the SQL statement of the CQM model, but in the case of the DQM model, cannot show the SQL statement and just the MDX statement only. Most customers want the SQL statement. To view the SQL syntax, we must save it as a log...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search text in the report from the Cognos Portal Search

We are looking for option to have wide search in the cognos portal. We are only allowed with 11.1.x search functionality was enhanced and allows for searching of objects such as table and column labels in addition to report names, folder names, pa...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Cognos Session ID Stored in Insecure Cookie

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

Need Alphabetical order returned independent of the reporting object

In 11.1 and up you now sort first by object type, but that breaks all the navigation we had to rebuild in moving from 10 to 11. We would much prefer the return of custom sorting, but at the very least need someway to specify a sort order.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release