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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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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...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possible to delete datamodul cache

When developing and debugging reports we need to know that we going against the database and not against cache. There should be an option to delete cache for a datamodul. Today I need to restart dispatcher or change datamodul to be able to delete ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Value prompt vs. Tree prompt Settings

1- It would be useful to have a "Show Select All" option in the bottom of the Tree prompt box (same as Value prompt)2 - It would be useful that the same color would be used when hovering over the available options of a prompt box so that the color...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Restrict report output format

We would like the option to restrict the output versions of a report on a report by report basis (not system-wide by user class).
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Export Framework Manager Model

End users should be able to get a diagram of the FM model to understand the table relations. Currently, you can only print the model (seen in content explorer), which breaks up the model into many pages. Should have the ability to export the whole...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Columns as Suppression Options for Lists

Crosstabs provide 4 Suppression Options based on Rows and Columns whereas Lists allow only for Row-based suppression. While Column-based suppression can be achieved in a List by using render variables, this is very time consuming when multiple Col...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Resubmit functionality is not available for report in 10.2 format

Resubmit functionality allows user after entering parameters and executing report navigate back to parameters page with all parameters values entered before the run. This feature is available only when option 'Run with full interactivity' is set t...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Error Logs to be 'user preference' independant

In the COGSERVER.log and AUDIT database entries, we see that errors are logged in German if the user has selected German language in his preferences. While you expect the user interface to show in preferred language, the server logs are expected i...
almost 9 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
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration