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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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Change location of templates folder

The 'Templates' folder must be located at the root level of Team Content in order for templates to function properly. However I often design folder structures where the root level folders have dedicated purposes based on user personas. Being able ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Default File Name for PDF

While saving a PDF file, the default name is not appearing same as report name, where as all the other options has got that functionality.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompt Page: Add a Checkbox prompt

We have some reports where we are asking users if they want to include some items or not and have to use a value prompt with the values Yes and No. For example, if we provide a report on days, we would ask if they want only the working days with a...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Variable Text on Visualization Titles When Filtered

When two or more widgets are linked in a dashboard, it would be great if the titles on the widgets/visualizations changed with whatever is being filtered. We've found that the only way to achieve anything like this currently is to use something li...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for EC Certs for LDAP Authentication

Please review Case number TS009073292. Hi, We are using SSL to communicate to LDAP Server from Cognos. LDAP team updated certificate but after that Cognos stopped connecting. I tried to import new certificate using steps mentioned at "https://www....
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Add Visualization Customizer or editor tool in Cognos Analytics tool

To create, edit, we have to use visualization customizer and then upload in cognos library and test. Thats an overhead. It would be great to have visualization editor in Cognos Analytics itself. So that an author can edit some basic changes like a...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IMAP (and TLS over IMAP) support

Product: IBM Cognos 10.2.2Actor: Janalakshmi Financial Services IBM Cognos is commonly used product for BI reporting. Description: Our team uses IBM Cognos 10.2.2 for BI reporting. We also use feature of Cognos to send reports as email attachment ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Users to Modify Data Sources, but Not Create New Ones

We have permissions and capabilities configured so that users are able to change their own signon passwords and refresh their own schemas. This supports us significantly in our efforts to allow self service for our users. The users with this abili...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Provide option to set preferred user name than generated Informix user

We are OEM to IBM Cognos Analytics and our field fail to install cognos analytics using easy install option in some customer environments for POCs as customers have limitation of not using local users or simple user names such as Informix. When w...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide Schedule Priorities from users or govern which priority numbers users have access to

We want to apply some priorities to schedules that belong to users. As admins of the system we want some users to be able to create schedules but we want to maintain the priorities of the list. If we remove the capability then the schedules always...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration