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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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Enable connection to Active Directory Global Catalog

We need to be able to connect to Active Directory Global catalog via default port 3268 as preffered way to interract with our AD (instead of interacting with global domain root having several domains bellow like Europe/US/Asia/... ). Cognos Doc: "...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Interactive Report within Portal Viewer

Would like the Interactive options inherent with Cognos ANalytics (like dynamic client side sorting and filtering) to be available through the Portal Viewers. I opened a helpdesk on it, and was told this was because they are two reporting interfac...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Limited information available regarding failed export of the content store in the Admin Console:

There is very limited information available when an export of the content store in the admin console failed, even when the "trace" option is enabled in the job. It is when you run a job in IBM Cognos Administration > Configuration > Content ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add options to configure acr_values for the generic OIDC Provider

Expand the IBM Cognos Configuration options for the generic OIDC Provider to include acr_values
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sort members of Groups and Roles

I would like to be able to sort members within Groups and Roles. It is not easy to identify who is in a group or role, when names are in the order entered and not alphabetical.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

URL opens new window when running multple reports

We run a url and it runs fine to open and run a report, but as soon as you rerun or run a new job, you get an authentication error. Then you need to close the browser window and run the new report.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Support for Jumbo Frames (MTU 9000) in Cognos Analytics

Customer would like to increase network packet size to Jumbo Frames (MTU 9000), but, there doesn't seem to be any information relating to how this would impact Cognos. From a Cognos applications perspective, this should not have any impact.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow customer to implement skinning and corporate fonts according to coporate styleguide

Customer has own fontset since 1990 and is more then interested to use the fonts in the internet facing reporting solutions. Customer has own coporate styleguide with own icons, symbols, colors, spaceing.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Dynamically Construct A List Array String of Report Columns To Be Used For Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST Driver

We are currently trying to use the Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST driver to connect to some our custom UKG APIs. During our initial observation on how the driver works, we’ve noticed that even if we create a Cognos report against the APIs wit...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

GW Dispatcher URI True Failover

We use Cognos BI and TM1 to provide critical financial reporting and planning to our C level and stock stakeholders. Providing a stable environment is key to Cognos continued success and adoption within the company. However with the BI GW not forw...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration