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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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Add ability to secure tabs in a dashboard based on different security groups

We have different groups who likes to see similar dashboards but currently we have to create separate dashboards for each group due to data security issue and we would very much like to have a functionality available where we can secure a tab in t...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Save HTML report to file system in HTML format and not MHT format

An HTML report is displayed optimally for the computer screen. Therefore you want to store the HTML report in the file system and make it available to your employees. This report will be saved as MHT file. In the company, Internet Explorer is no ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Function Lookup UI for Calculations In Data Modules and Dashboard

Need a good function lookup UI in the Data Module and Dashboard tools, like exists on the Report tool. That would make it very easy to see what your choices are, and how to use them. Right now, there is no UI. Just an expression editor. You need t...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Using QR Code for login in Mobile App with SSL or SSO

Lots of our customers using SSL and SSO for Cognos Analytics On Prem. Since Cognos Version 11.2.4 they also more and more use the Mobile App for consuming Dashboards. The point is that they currently have to enter the Dispatcher URL for connecting...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

See my uploaded files and my amount of uploaded data

When exporting from onprem and importing to the cloud I, as an administrator, own all objects. After a few days I wanted to reload a small excel file but could not load because I had exceeded the limit of 500MB per user. I can not see which upload...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Future consideration

Keep HTML view of report in browser when changing it to Excel version

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, users ran a report with prompts on the report page with the List in HTML. From the Viewer they would select Run > Excel, which would open a separate window browser Window for the Excel download. The original Cognos V...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

I would like to preserve the new line character(\n) when uploading data files.

When I upload an Excel or CSV data file to Cognos Analytics, new line characters contained within text columns are automatically converted to space characters. On the other hand, new line characters included in database text columns are handled wi...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Need better warning text when deleting folders

Our customer by mistake deleted a folder with many reports. Their complaint is that the warning message says "this item will be deleted", rather than "this folder will be deleted with all its subfolders and reports"
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow configurability for not displaying informational messages

Enterprise BI customer, ~9000 system users. Two different scenarios that are causing "informational" or "warning" messages are: An authored STANDARD report using full interactivity in CA (11.1.7 FP2). The user only have read, traverse and execute ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Use a report expression as the default selection for a prompt

Customer would like to be able to use a report expression as the default selection parameter for a prompt. The client would like this ability so that they can use a calculation (example the current date) and have the default selected date be this ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration