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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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Spell Number Function

We need a way to turn numbers into words. For example, "2600" would become "Twenty-Six Hundred" We've got reporting requirements to print a check image and we need words for numbers on the dollars line.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cookies Not Marked HttpOnly

We observed that some cookies for the site were set without the HTTP Only attribute.A cookie is a small amount of data stored on the user's hard drive in order to maintain state with the application. The use of session ID cookies allows users to a...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cookies Not Marked Secure

A cookie was found that does not require the use of SSL for secure transmission. The secure attribute tells the browser to only send the cookie if the request is being sent over a secure channel such as HTTPS. This will help protect the cookie fro...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need a detailed log for the import/export of Cognos BI deployments which shows all the sucess/failure status of all objects

As of now, to know whether the cognos BI deployment is successful or not, we have a high level summary status of deployment of success/fail in Cognos BI portal. Similar high level information is available in cogserver.log in the Cognos install dir...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Search button is not working for custom maps in Map Visulaization

Search button in the map visualization is not working for custom maps. Currently, we have state name or provinces as Cincinnati2 vs Cincinnati and the Map is not able to recognize the province .
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to access Cognos Administration through a specific URL only

An additional option is requested to access IBM Cognos Administration through a separate Gateway URI only. Currently access to IBM Cognos Administration can only be restricted by capabilities.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos Lifecycle Manager 11.1 should have flexibility to compare csv and excel reports

We are migrating our Cognos 10.2 to 11.1.x version so to get all the reports aligned properly we used IBM Lifecycle Manager to compare reports. As we know that Lifecycle Manager 11+ version do not support formats like csv and excel so we have to m...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

WEX AC official support to MS2016

Currently, WEXAC is only officially supported up to MS2010. However, the majority of users use MS2016 as their data source. In its current state, you should officially support MS2016, as you will not be able to get support from the developer in ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Combined Filter Application – After Auto Aggregation problem

When creating a combined filter in Cognos Workspace Advanced against a relational package, the selection for Application of the filter defaults to 'After auto aggregation.' regular filters default to 'Before auto aggregation.' This default, which ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide Hints based upon Role

We need the ability to Hide the Hints, either globally or by user role. Sometimes the hints refer to items that the user will not be authorized to see, thus they do not make sense for the user to see it. Example: a Hint says "this is where you wou...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration