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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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Latest XLS/CSV instance downloadable for restricted user

IBM Case: TS000978831 Cognos Analytics provides new capabilities to control users from generating XLS, CSV etc. output types, called as "Generate CSV Output" etc., however these capabilities aren't able to control the outputs in a lot of cases. On...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

start lcm as a windows service

my team has lifecycle mgr installed but noticed we have to run the start script everytime we want to use lcm.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cascading prompts that contain only a singluar element should also receive a box frame like the ones with mutliple elements

Currently Cascading Prompts that contain only one selectable Value will not show a Box Frame similar in Outline to those that have multiple Elements for selection.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Seeing the contents of user's profile is not possible in Manage but only in old admin console

We try to use only Manage. In general just please add all functionalities from console to Manage. Detail: in Manage > Accounts when you see a user you can't see its content but instead just properties. This can be seen only in old Administratio...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Azure BLOB storage cloud connection to save report output

In Cognos 11.1.5 are Cloud Object Storage providers introduced. With this solution is it possible to save report output to an external Cloud Object Storage provider like IBM, Google and Amazon. Azure, one of the biggest cloud service providers, is...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow for filtering using range on varchar fields

we need to be able to filter between two values on an varchar field in workspace advanced.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable customization of authoring perspective

The new black and white design in Authoring (Report Studio) has caused massive annoyance at some of our customers. The reasons given were: generally confusing color is missing in the icons windows (e.g. expression editor) are not clearly delimited...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

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

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 ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Cognos Data Modules Packages

Currently users are using data modules to create their own models and one of the available sources to choose from is packages . when user chose 2 different packages ( even if both of them read from the same data source ) local processing will be e...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration