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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.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Workspace Tab and Widget movement flexibility

When utilizing a Cognos Workspace for building dashboards there should be more flexibility to adjust and organize the functionality of objects. Tabs and all the widgets should be center aligned. The widget refresh icon should be in center of the s...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

In COGNOS Analytics (TITAN) need to be able to set "Can run but not author" at the package and report levels.

In the new version of COGNOS Titan it appears authoring has been combined to a single row. Currently there is a function to restrict by Package what tools can be used. Also editing the system xml we can remove read access to traverse by default. T...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Allow Filters to appear above Tabs on tabbed reports

On tabbed reports with in page filters, the filters appear below the tabs making it look weird. Would like the filters to appear above the tab. Would
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

encode Active report lists and xtabs in JSON, not XML

currently the lists and crosstabs in an active report have thier supporting data encodeed in XML. This makes the resulting MHT file very large. All other visualzations have thier data encoded in JSON, which results in much smaller MHTs.Please cons...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a recycle bin for administrators

Users delete items by mistake and it would be nice to have a way to retrieve those items easily. It could empty on a rolling cycle to reduce size
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sort members of Groups and Roles

I would like to be able to sort members within Groups and Roles. It is not easy to identify who is in a group or role, when names are in the order entered and not alphabetical.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sybase ASE connectivity via JDBC

Sybase ASE connectivity with Cognos 10.2.1 is through compatible query mode which is a 32bit connection. We would like to know IBM's plan to support JDBC connectivity with Sybase ASE.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI to operate and co-exist with ipstatus conntrack "stateful "firewall" with "default" configuration settings

New Functionality requested with Cognos:When Oracle maintenance is required to be carried out there will always be a Cognos CS instance available. We're seeking for Cognos BI to operate in such a manner to ensure that it ipstatus conntrack table o...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Setting to set color transparency

It would be nice to have a setting that compute the color transparency automatically instead of having to manually computing it then entering the RGB values specific to the transparency. It could induce error and not following company standards.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration