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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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Add saved report outputs to search

Add existing saved report outputs to Cognos Search. They should be indexed and made available so contents of generated HTML-, Excel- PDF-, csv- and xml-files can be found via Cognos Search. There should also be an option to enable/disable search w...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

add data masking as option for object security in Framwork Manager and Data Module

Having Data Masking available as security option for object security in Framework Manager and the Data Module allows us to set the visibility of a certain attribute in a report or dashboard for specific user groups, as defined in the security of C...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

HTML items in Cognos for Office

We want to use HTML-items (Javascript, Integeo, Maps etc) in Cognos for Office. When we import items in Powerpoint our map does not appear.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Non-Path Traversal for PDF viewer

Corporate Web Application Firewalls consider the use of path traversal syntax to be a security violation. Cognos 11.2.1 uses path traversal to render pdf reports interactively. This violates standard web security implementations.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 3 Not under consideration

Show filter text for advanced expressions

We have transitioned our Query Studio users to Cognos Analytics Report and they are liking it except they would like to be able to show on the report what filters are being applied. We have shown them the option to Insert Filter Text, but when the...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Agent shouldn't run email Task if any of its Previous- Run a report(Task) failed.

Ex: Agent for weekly reports. The above agent has 3 below tasks : Task 1: Run a report : Report A Task 2: Run a report : Report B Task 3: Send an email: Attach output of report A and report B and send to recipients. Issue: If task 1 executed succe...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Removing the dataset upload size limit.

Etisalat wants to migrate their dashboards and reports to Cognos Analytics but are restricted by the dataset size limits.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Request for Cognos Analytics Docker Image

Hi, We are planning to go for docker images for all of our internal applications. So we need CA version to be made available that can be utilized on Docker.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need the feature to Impersonate User in Cognos to replicate user specific issues

Need the option to impersonate user in cognos. We need this feature to replicate user specific issues by logging in as user and quickly identifying and tracking the issues
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improved Customization Section

Within Cognos you have the ability to setup roles where you can customize what shows and what is hidden from a user. The problem is if a user is in multiple roles, any customizations that have been unchecked will enforce deny no matter what the ro...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration