Skip to Main Content
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


ADD A NEW IDEA

Cognos Analytics

Showing 3613

URL link for published Microsoft Word document in Cognos Analytics

We published Microsoft Word document into Cognos Analytics using IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office. We would like to create an HTML link to this document but currently unable to do so since this feature does not exist. As a workaround, we have to gi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to keep Data Sets in Query Server memory

There are times when Data Sets do not deliver desired performance. This is apparent on the first run of the Data Set based dashboards when Data Sets are large. The underlying technology is file-based columnar data store Apache Parquet where files ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Ragged Hierarchies on MapBox maps.

There are times when geospatial data has multiple levels of detail e.g. WHO reported Covid-19 data on country level in most countries, but in USA, China, Canada and Australia the same data had state level information. It would be great if Cognos A...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Deny permission in "Manage Console" new surface Cognos 11 needed

Within the "old" Administration Console, you can choose a role/group (screenshot old admin console) and then by clicking "properties" in the action pane a dialog "set properties" opens. In this dialog, you choose a group/role to change/set permiss...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle 32bit 19c Client

Currently Cognos Analytics 11.1.5 only work with Oracle 12 client for CQM data sources. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1106607
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for viewing spatial layers in Cognos RS

Support for viewing spatial layers in Cognos RS
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support for strongest SSL/TLS ciphers to Cognos Mobile in order to improve security

Add the strongest SSL/TLS ciphers support fo Cognos Mobile when accessing data through http server.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add the ability to connect to the IBM Cognos Content Store using Oracle wallet (combined SSO and SSL)

A method to configure SSO for a Oracle DB content manager connection via Oracle wallet is required.Currently only SSL is supported and there is no Oracle option to select in Cognos Configuration when setting up the content store connection that do...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show more lines for the expression in the data item properties pane

The expression that is showed in the properties pane is just one line height. It would be nice if there was a possibility to set text wrapping (just like in Excel) so that there are more lines of the expression visible. This prevents that you don’...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to move the properties pane to another location of the screen

The properties pane has a fixed location on the right side of the screen. On screens with a higher resolution is the working area is much bigger, which is handy. However, the result of this is that the location of the properties pane is too much t...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration