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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


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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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Add Ability To Search Within A Security Group

There simply isn't an option to sort in the legacy admin portal on users in the Cognos namespace. When there are hundreds of users in a group that is unsorted it is difficult to find a user. I suggest a new sort feature be added to the glass UI. F...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Not under consideration

IBMID for Cognos Analytics

Would like the ability to log into Cognos Analytics on Cloud directly using the IBM ID. Currently the integration with Planning Analytics (which uses the IBM ID) is only possible by clicking the "Report" button in the PA portal. Cannot currently l...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Record all failures into RUNREPORTS including when password expires

Currently - the report failure will only get logged into the RUNREPORTS table if the report server had received the request. If there was a failure beforehand, for example if the password had expired, you will not see the failure in the RUNREPORTS...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change the order of dimensions when using an SSAS Multi/Tabular Cube in CA11 Report

Ability to change the order of dimensions when using an SSAS Multi/Tabular Cube in CA11 Report
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need Cognos BI to have the ability to track for the changes of Event Studio Agent

Cognos should have the ability to track for the changes of Event Studio Agent. For example, the embed reports were changed, the agent execution time was changed, the email recipients were changed, etc, there should have a record generated so Cogno...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

drop downs/checkbox/radio prompts in dashboards like we have in report studio which improves user interface and space can be utilized

drop downs/checkbox/radio prompts in dashboards like we have in report studio which improves user interface and valuable space can be utilized.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Customization of tooltips to show datapoint images, description, sales and other visualizations like top 5 products for that datapoint in Tooltip

Tooltip actions like whenever you mouse hover on any viz datapoint should show other tabs/vizs means give ability to manually edit tooltip text/data what to show or not. for example we have a chart with all product category sales and whenever you ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enable kerberos/certificate authentication for Cognos content store in z/OS DB2

When building Cognos content store in z/OS DB2, we need to provide id/password on Cognos configuration portal for DB2 connections. We don't have known password for most IDs in z/OS due to security policy and most DB2 applications have supported Ke...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Insert a tag in email header for all the emails sent by Cognos app server

We are requesting an option to add an attribute to the mail header for all mails generated from Cognos App Server so that we can map that to some config in Amazon SES, which will allow us to capture info/metrics about all of the outgoing mails.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Easy means of creating page breaks was removed from Cognos Analytics; Please Add it Back

In C8 and C10 it was very simple to add a page break to your report by clicking on the data item and choosing a menu option. This shortcut was taken away in Cognos Analytics. In CA you must manually create the page set. This is completely inconsis...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration