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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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Use Microsft SMTP server Office 365 TLS

I want to use our SMTP Office365 (cloud Microssoft) for sending emails from COGNOS. Microsft uses TLS. The support said me that TLS is not supported by IBM COGNOS.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to set retention rules on datasets

Use case: A customer requests to be forgotten. Requests that he/she wants to be removed from data sources where possible. From a GDPR perspective we need to be able to manage datasets containing data. e.g. data source has been updated (user inform...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Allow General Users to view "Run activities and schedules" without counting towards the "Admin" Licensce

Prior to Cognos Analytics, all users could view their "My Schedules" to see a consolidated list of all of their schedules in one place.In Cognos Analytics, this capability (Run activities and schedules) is now under "Capability > Administration...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Scheduling Reports

Now you have the possibility to schedule one report with one schedule rule. My suggestions is to create a multiple schedule for one report. My suggestion to resolve this problem is with an option of multiple schedules and with this two options: - ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Allow the addition of new components during the upgrade process.

At present, upgrading Cognos Analytics reads the currently installed components from the cmplst.txt file, and only upgrades those components. It is not possible to add any additional or new components (for example, Image Service) during an upgrade...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Fix Visualization Summaries

When hovering over the legend in a visualization, the summary item numbers are calculated COMPLETELY WRONG. For example, a line graph of the total year showing a ratio per month has all of the ratios ADDED together when hovering. This is completel...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support for custom URLs to Cognos Analytics dashboards including multilingual and accessibility parameters

We wish to have full support for custom URLs with all optional parameters extended to include Cognos Analytics dashboards. This should include support for multilingual parameters contentLocale and productLocale, as well as accessibility features p...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Copy Conditional Styles from one report to another

In case of developing a group of reports within one project the styles the design of data tables is supposed to be the same. And it is hardly convinient to create the same Conditional Styles in every single report when you have dozens of them. In ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Interactive vs Non-interactive re-run differences

When you click the run on an interactive report, not the drop down on the run you get a prompt page to re-run. If you click the drop down there is no reset prompts and run choice. When you click the run on a non-interactive report, you get a drop ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

auto loading of metadata in data server connection

At the moment it is not possible to automatically (re)load the meta data for a data server connection. It would be helpful to have a way to automate this with a timer job or something else, so that users dont have to do a manual refresh of the met...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration