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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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Possibility to customize the welcome message of the homepage.

Hope to customize the welcome message of the homepage.Currently is possible only modify the colors of the application bar and the navigation bar, set the corporate title that is shown on the home page.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support mobile browser: Chrome and Firefox for Android, iOS

When I open IBM Cognos Analytics from Chrome on Android, the Manage tab is missing. IBM services helpdesk informed me that IBM Cognos Analytics currently only support Safari on iPad. Can mobile browser (Chrome, Firefox) be supported on Android and...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Fix how reference shortcuts on alias shortcuts work in FM

You create a query subject from a database table. Then you create an alias shortcut on that query subject. On this alias shortcut you add relationships to other query subjects/shortcuts. After that you create a reference shortcut on the alias shor...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

More Generic Error message for CAF - Reflective XSS

With recent penetration testing, the IBM security team thought that the CAF (which was enabled) was allowing Reflective XSS. After feedback from the CA developers, it was learned that the CAF is working as designed and no scripts are able to do an...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When we run the report, we need a function that generates a dynamically permanent link

Currently, there is no ability to create a permanent link, creating a permanent link by using the 'ReportPath function'.In this case, if we change the File Name or Path, permanent link that we created before the change can not be linked.Like a Reo...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Rich Text Source Type to be External (Markdown or HTML support)

Problem We have started creating a pre-report page that includes methodology, links to issues (we use GitLab), links to other reports, and most important highlights from the current report. When adding the details to the first page, we use the "Ri...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Screen should remain in full screen when moved from one dashboard to other using drill through

As a user if I select the full screen option , it should remain in that mode until i change it. Currently, when I select a full screen and navigate it to a different dashboard using drill through, the full screen mode will be exited and I need to ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to use expressions or functions in conditional layout for page dependent values.

Add the ability to include the list header only on the first page of the report and not have it repeating across all pages. The conditional statements work fine when in interactive HTML but not in batch (PDF, HTML etc).
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics OpenID support for SecureAuth

Our OIDC IDP vendor at officedepot is SecureAuth. Request you to consider adding support for Secureauth as well. We are currently using Cognos 11.0.9
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos SSO testing

We currently automate Sitescope and other monitoring tools to check the health of Cognos 11. We are able to test each dispatcher, each gateway, report production, etc but we have not figured a way to test if Single Sign On (SSO) is working (pass t...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration