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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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Ability to disable HTTP on dispatcher when HTTPS enabled

As it is possible to deactivate HTTP on web servers when HTTPS is enabled, we would like the same option when WLP is used (dispatcher URL)
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos URls have high-bit charcters

PMR 30376,227,000: Cognos 10.2.2 Bi Server - Cognos admin urls have high-bit characters We use Microsoft Threat management gateway (TMG) firewall/reverse proxy to allow access for external url, however it blocks any urls which may have high bit ch...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Concurrent Login to multiple machine (Security threat)

Concurrent login with same credentials to multiple machines is against the Genpact's security policy, hence this has to be fixed in Genpact private cognos cloud environments.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lineage for Folder

In 11.1.7 FP1 there is no option to check lineage on the folder. This prohibits end users to see where the folder exist especially when we have nested levels and namespaces in a big package
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Moving Maximum (like a Moving Average)

A large customer requires a Moving Maximum capability. This is similar to the Moving Average, but this would pull the maximum value from the past x rows.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SOLR support as Cognos data source

Hi, we have a search platform that is based on the open source project Apache Solr. We want to expose data stored within the platform to Cognos so that subsets may be modeled and incorporated into analysis. I'm told this is not yet a consideration...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

QR code in share content tab

As url and iframe integration is available on share content tab, it should be useful to generate a QR code to allow users to take it to theis mobile devices instantly.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need keyboard shortcut keys to skip links and move to main report content

Keyboard users are unable to skip the links (on top of report output) and move to the main content of Report Studio report. They have to tab through all the links to get to the main content.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

(on cloud) expand Excel output to 1,048,576 rows from 11.6

Your Excel features on the 'on premises' are not available for the multi-tenant environment. Expanding the Excel output to 1,048,576 will take advantage of Excel row expansion that has been available for decades.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create mailing label template

We have users that continue to try to create mailing labels. They continue to struggle with understanding repeater tables, formatting and alignment. Then after frustration, they drop the data to Excel and print.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration