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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,


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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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Include Personal entries in full backup Content Store

Personal entries from users such as Recent entries and objects in My Content are not part of the current full backup functionality. Please add functionality to backup and restore such content.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Connectivity to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Our organization needs to be able to profile and analyze unstructured data in Azure Data Lake Gen2 and create reports. At this point, we are forced to use Power BI for this reporting need because Cognos Analytics does not have this capability to c...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Az.Combination Evolution

System: ReporterActor: User needing new feature -------------------------------------Attached the screenshot for the example.Red dots are connected by a line which is transparent. The actual behavior is : On hidden the lines connecting the dots in...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics -Search for active directory groups in OIDC OKTA namespace in Cognos when OKTA and active directory synced

System: Cognos analytics security and access restriction with OIDC configuration Required feature : Require to search for Active directory groups in OKTA OIDC namespace configured in cognos when OKTA is synced with Active Directory Description :Co...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Do not log error messages in cognos logs when users use cancel button in prompt pages

we would like to avoid having errors in logs due to users using cancel button in prompt pages. Today when they click cancel in prompts there is error in logs/audit which we do not consider normal as it is standard user activity.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show shortcuts in Cognos Connection for Microsoft Office

When browsing Cognos Connection from MS Excel, the shortcuts to actual reports are not visible. Please, make them visible and enable drag&drop to Excel sheet. The reason is that our customer has separate folder structure - for developers - all...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

documentation upgrade on top of a previous version by using silent instal

In the documentation there is an upgrade process from earlier version :https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.doc/c_upgrade_upgradeprocess.html#upgrade_UpgradeProcess there is also a docume...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add KeyCloak to the list of supported OpenID Providers

Add KeyCloak to the list of supported OpenID Providers
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report Tool Function Bar

The new reporting tool should have some sort of option like the old Report Studio to have the different functions in a bar to be all the time. The clicking on a row or column to make them show is not working for our users. There are other places w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Repetitive values on axes of bar charts

For bar charts, when the x/y-axis range is less (<10) then the values on the axis tends to repeat. This happens because cognos auto range rounds off the numbers. The current chart auto-grouping of range works fine if the data range is large com...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release