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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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Rest API for security group

Hello, We need an entegration with our security team. We did it before other BI tools with their rest api. But in Cognos we cannot use security group with members. Our security team don't want to use SDK because of our microservice standarts. You ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Report Page Name localization

In Cognos Analytics version 10.2.2, we are using the functionality "View pages as tabs".When the report runs in HTML format, tabs are labelled with page names.Problem is : it is not possible to translate page name (no language variable, no conditi...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Chase Referrals in Cognos AD Configuration

Unable to sucessfully configure Virtual directory server in cognos that uses chase referrrals to route authentication requests to relevant AD's. Error for reference:[ ERROR ] CAM-AAA-0026 The function call to 'ldap_search_s' failed with error code...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show a graph on Dashboard where we have to design a Graph which shows a Stacked Bars for multiple products in different colors and a Line as average.

Requirement to have a line showing the averages on a Stacked Bar graph which represents multiple products and the live representing the average. Business has been using Tableau Dashboard tool and we are migrating from Tableau to Cognos, Business i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add syntax highlighting and function suggestions to Reporting's expression editor

Dashboard and data Module calculations support syntax highlighting, and possible functions are suggested as you type their first letters. That editor would be of great use in Reporting as well.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - allow users to search pins based on tags

CA Dashboarding - allow users to search pins based on tags. There is a search capability, but there is nothing to search by. Need an easy way for user to find pinned widgets.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Watch Rules: Ability to copy a watch rule

go to "My Watch Rules" > Rules tab. Look at the tool bar, there is cut and paste, but not copy.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Cognos BI to integrate with FileNet CPE 5.2.1.5 and greater

Update the code to integrate between Cognos BI and FileNet CPE 5.2.1.5 and higher.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

My parameters feature - improved security evaluation

Hello, we are using the My parameters feature in cognos where from one place we can share the prompt selection cross many reports as default option. We have a lot of security in our system including data source/package levels. When using my parame...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Being able to generate output in Excel format for an Audit report

Create Execute reports, dashboards and stories by package for past 30 days as a normal report (in addition Active report)
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration