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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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Allowlist only the HTML tags that wont trigger any execution in the browser

As a part of Pent test,it was observed that IBM Cognos application is vulnerable to Stored-XSS occurs when a malicious script is injected directly into a vulnerable web application. The application accepts all type of inputs without validation ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Value Prompt: Multi-select and Auto-submit

In Cognos 10.2.1 Fix Pack 3, I could set Auto-submit = Yes and Multi-select = Yes on a value prompt. At some point thereafter, the ability to have that combination was removed. IBM Support has stated that having both of those properties = Yes can ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow selective email overrides for the Notification Default Sender

Users who initiate a burst report, have the default email address taken from Cognos Configuration under "Notifications". Several users would like to be able to override the default email address with their company email address. Currently this ove...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Performance of complex reports against TM1 with MTQ>1

Having complex reports (ie. burst or complex reports with multiple pages and master details) against a TM1 datasource, can have major performance impact on the TM1 server, depending on the settings.Behaviors that are experienced:- each burst key e...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Download as Excel and cancel button appear too early

When you run a report as Excel, if interactivity is turn on, the first page of prompts displays at the top of the page a header indicating "Download as Excel" + a CANCEL button. Nothing has been executed yet. This message is displayed too early ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Required Support for Dynamic LDAP groups

Our company is implementing Dynamic LDAP groups and as per the PMR: 22069,442,000 this is yet not supported by IBM Cognos 10.2.1. Without this enhancement to support it will be a challenge to take Cognos to UAT and Production
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...
almost 5 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.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance advanced dispatcher routing to allow for AdHoc/Non-Core reports to be routed differently to "Approved" reports.

This would be useful, as it would allow the organisation to ensure efficient execution of "approved" reports (possibly driven by an administrative flag in the product) to dedicated resources, whereas other reports would be routed to a default rout...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Access Members from Multiple AD Forests

Cognos is unable to search members across Active Directory forests. Cognos must have a separate namespace configured in Cognos Connection for each forest. This creates overheads on Administration by maintaining multiple namespaces.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration