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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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Obsolete Functionality Enabled

Obsolete Functionality Enabled :The application includes some outdated or unused functions that are not necessary for the product's intended users. Remove any unneeded functionality in order to reduce the attack surface. This was discovered during...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Insecure Log Management [OWASP Top Ten 2013 - A5]:

The application logs sensitive information to the user's local disk with no protections for the files or masking for sensitive data inside them. It logs regardless of need and does not seem to have any automated purge process to destroy old data. ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request designed as POST is accepted as GET:

The application will accept and process a request sent as a GET, even though it is designed to be used as a POST. A GET request exposes any included parameters in browser history, printed pages, and server logs. A POST prevents those exposures. En...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Life Cycle Manager

In life cycle manager the product does not support comparing Excel reports in Cognos. It only supports comparing in HTML and PDF. Could comparing excel be added to the product.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to use PageNumber function in a variable to render the object conditionally

Product: Cognos Report Studio 10.1.1 Currently, according to defect COGCQ00017674 , PageNuber() and PageCount() report function can not be used in a varaible. We wants these function to use these functions in a variable so he can render the object...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Update DB2ZOS SCripts for Tables and Tablespaces to support UTS that is the DB2 Z/OS direction.

Current Cognos Analytics Configuration scripts like tablespace_db2zos.sql , needs to be updated to support UTS. This is the direction of IBM DB2 V12 and higher to use UTS tables and Tablespaces. One Table per one Tablespace. No longer use Shared t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Google Chrome samesite HTTPS cookie preservation

Google Chrome 84 version has deployed new samesite cookie restrictions. The only workaround is to have the end-user modify their chrome cookies to 'disable' samesite. Cognos is integrated within our own web-based product using an iframe. We have c...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to execute multiple query report into CSV and Excel 2007 data format

If multiple query exists in a report, you cannot download all data both in csv and Excel 2007 data format.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhanced Prompt Controls

Provide enhanced prompt controls out of box like the one below. 1. Multiselect Dropdown List With Checkboxes 2. SingleSelect Dropdown List with RadioButtons. 3. Advanced and Search and Select prompt with ability to only display seach input box wit...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Stop agent from continuously checking once condition is met in Event Studio.

Customer would like agent to stop running once condition has been met for that day.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration