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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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Prohibit Concurrent Logins in Business BI (including mobile)

As noted in PMR 81027,442,000, our security function has cited us as having a security issue with the present ability to sign into IBM Cognos BI in multiple sessions at the same time. Per a discussion with IBM security, this is a BI session manage...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove options for functionality Save on external Filesystem

We are offering customers to provide Reports via A2A which they have to store on the filesystem. Unfortunately many customers are using the standard report name to store the reports on the filesystem with the usage of 'replace existing files'. Due...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Cube designer: Dimension short cuts renameable like Framework shortcuts

In cube designer, I have many date fields in many facts and all of them have different names, everything cant be called "Date".If I change the name of a dimension that resides in a cube, it changes all the other dimensions in cubes, therefore, I h...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to send a list of failed scheduled tasks to users who credentials are not renewed

Ability to send a list of failed scheduled tasks to users who credentials are not renewed
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set the same Group Span for multiple columns in List object in Report Studio

currently in report studio of Cognos, there is no way to highlight multiple columns and set the same group span. have to high light each column and click on the group span and select multiple time. This is very annoying and not user friendly, grea...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Option to enable and disable highlighting common cells in a Table in interactive dashboard

Right now when there are common cells in a Table in interactive dashboard, clicking one of the common cells will highlight all common cells. Sometime this is useful but sometime this create confusion looking at the table. One way I learnt is to ad...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

CA 11.2 all quick launch hide to be turned off/on

Currently you can hide the quick launch in the portal, when you log back in the quick launch is no longer hidden. Would like have stay hidden until I choose to unhide it.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Ability to have summary totals in a two fact crosstab

Ability to have summary totals in a two fact crosstab
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide mechanism for Multiple User Sessions

Issue : Application shows multiple users sessionsObservation : Session Management
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Logging of data in Audit Table even when report prompt values are cached

We need to understand that how the logs are created in the Audit table because when the prompt values are submitted it is creating a log in the Audit table with the corresponding report name. So it is affecting the monthly audit average data. Even...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration