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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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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

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

Add Google BiqQuery Functions to Cognos Analytics

Hi IBM, We are using Google BigQuery as one of the database sources to connect to Cognos Analytics on Cloud and using the packages to build reports and dashboards. Currently, we have to manually type in the Google BigQuery functions in the Model, ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 4 Not under consideration

Cognos Anlytics mobile in Spanish

In cognos cognection, users can define the preferred language for the tool and everything they see from the browser they see in the defined language, but when they access cognos mobile they can only see the tool in English. For us it is important ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release

Clean up CASM after PowerCube and Deployment uploaded and moved.

Current solution allows users to upload PowerCubes, images and Deployment files to CASM.After the files are uploaded, they reman on the CASM eventually causing Disc Full situations. The request is to have the automation process clean up (remove) t...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Lifecycle Manager Reports

In the 10.2.2 version of Lifecycle Manager, we used to be able to do comparisons and create reports that we could print for our customers to show them the differences and what failed, etc. There is no reporting or exporting of results as previousl...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Email Encryption using third party software like Voltage

We would like to have the capability to integrate the emails sent from Cognos with an encryption software such as voltage. It would usually require the capability to modify the header information to include a tag (Eg: “X-Voltage sysencrypt”).S...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove Select a Delivery Method instead or Waiting

In previous versions it was possible to hide the message "Select a Delivery Method instead or Waiting", which prevents users from submitting their running report into the background.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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

CSV Output with Double Quotation

Need Double Quotation when the users output through CSV from Cognos Analytics. They used to customize but they are now have to use standard feature, and cannot customize, however they request the new feature.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration