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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


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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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Data Source Connections - Set Password Dynamically

Problem / Use Case - In Cognos Data source connections can be created in multiple places. Either of the below cases we need to enter the password manually. Considering knowing the password in Production databases is a Security Risk. So Implement a...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

NO WAY TO HIDE OBJECTS IN CIRCULAR MENU

When you hide the report toolbox for a role in customization > features, the (+) in the right pane to create a new object, that circular menu still shows all objects. No way to hide any of those options - List, Crosstab, Text Item, Block and Ta...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add threshold lines to line, bar charts to demarcate where a pre-set %of measured value appears.

We have a requirement to display threshold lines on a line chat in a dashboard as indicated in the attached file "Add2ThresholdLinesToLineChart.gif". What we want is a line through the graph to show 70% breach in Amber and another line through the...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Uploading cognos report output directly in google drive

Uploading cognos report output directly in google drive
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Implement an option to read DB credentials from AWS Secret Manager rather than embedding a signon in Cognos Analytics.

Centralised secrets management lowers administration overhead - being able to integrate with a standard secrets repository and leverage those security factors would reduce maintenance within Cognos Analytics.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Tooltip in Cognos Line chart(11.1Viz) is breaking and moving to next line.

We are using Cognos 11.1 R5 version and using Reports. We are using Line chart as a visualisation. Here tooltip in line chart is breaking and moving to next line. This is happening only for last values in the chart. Attached the screenshotMARCH | ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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

Allow wallets for mTLS to be accessed from Cloud Object Storage

As cloud-based datasources become the norm, security is becoming stronger by default. As an example, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW), supports Mutual TLS (mTLS) via wallet-based security as a default mechanism. Cognos Analytics on Cloud (On...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Better manage Dashboard pins

If I want to make optimal use of (saved) dashboard pins, I would like to have these additional capabilities in the pin library: be able to create folders/groups be able to rename pins be able to add tags to pins, including one called "favorite" be...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Enable cell merge in crosstabs imported into Word

When a crosstab is imported into Microsoft Word, special cell-based border styles are not recognized. IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office respects the formatting style defined for the first cell in the table and applies this style to the entire report.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration