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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,


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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


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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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Support lines in the visualization map in Cognos

Tableau has the functionality to easily upload a shape file in mapbox and visualise on a map the rivers,.... When selecting in a table a certain river, the river on the map in mapbox is highlighted. The opposite is also possible, when selecting a ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Control Over Fully Interactive Toolbar

Being able to control what users within a role see allows you to setup one Dashboard for your entire population of users(no matter what level of expertise they have at running and understanding a report/data. Fully Interactive (FI) toolbar gives a...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Improper Validation of Session Capabilities

An application is vulnerable to improper validation of session capabilities. Changes regarding the permissions within the application aren’t applied to existing sessions immediately. This can be used by an attacker to regain previous permissions. ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Password Policy configuration for Exports

At the content export in Cognos Administration one can protect the content of the compressed file with a password length of at least 8 characters. As company policies are changing and sometimes more demanding on password policy some configuration ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Data Table with interactive features of List (i.e. sort by column)

We would like to use the new data table, that is available since 11.1.6 in our reports. But we are missing the interactive features, that are available for the Lists in reports. Especially the function to sort by any column is often used and needed.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dock Fields closer to the Sources on a Dashboard

I love the dashboard interface changes in v11.1.6. I especially like having the "Fields" open without having to open the visualization. A suggestion I have is to give users the ability to dock the Fields section closer to the Source section.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add possibility to exclude dataset output in backup process

This functionality provides the possibility to exclude dataset output from the backup process.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatic (Schedule) planned download of used licenses

The license information about the current licenses can currently only be exported manually. It would be helpful to export this information automatically or planned / scheduled.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Switch delimiter of the license information export file

It would be helpful if you could change the delimiter of the export file. By default it is the comma. However, there may be occurrences that the name of the login also contains a comma.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Arrays in Cognos

Per IBM, currently it does not support data type of arrays...In some complex data models we need this type of data type to be supported by cognos for reporting...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration