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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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Support Microsoft Identity Platform 2.0 API with Azure AD OpenID Connect (TS003289567)

Azure AD OpenID Connect API v1 (Azure AD for developers 1.0) doesn't support returning the groups claim in the ROPC (Resource Owner Password Credentials) logon method that Cognos uses to Authorize Stored Credentials for scheduled tasks and jobs. S...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Dashboard Definition Export/Import

We would like to retrieve technical definition of Dashboard. We are not able to use search & replace tools for Dashboards. It would be nice to see how the dashboard is build.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Logarithmic scale option in dashboard visualizations

Logarithmic scales are a frequent need that are available in certain charts in reports. This same feature should be introduced in Dashboard visualizations to support analysis of a wider range of data sets.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Data Module refresh/update data

Currently when you want to update the data for a table in a data module you need to drag it on top of the existing table. This is clumsy. If you are updating from a shared data module the work done in the share module this is lost in the refresh
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Enable Report Studio to generate PDF reports with bookmarks and navigation pane

We are converting reports from another BI platform. These reports are large with lots of groups within them. The other BI platform generates a PDF navigation pane on the left hand side using PDF bookmarks. This allows the user to quickly jump to t...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Delivered

Ellipses in the Team Content provides a way to 'Create report'

Consumer/user do not have capability to create/delete report. However in the Team Content, by clicking on the ellipses located next to the folder/package, user can see ‘Create report’. A better approach would be to hide the ellipses altogether.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Amazon Redshift data source

Connection is using the latest jdbc driver RedshiftJDBC42-no-awssdk-1.2.36.1060Client We are looking for support of data type boolean. Importing into FM brings data type in as Int16 and results in error when testing database query subject: 'XQ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Support for MS SQL Server 2019 as Content Store database

Ultimate Software (US) is planning migration to SQL Server 2019 as the standard RDBMS version for all applications using MS SQL Server. Supported conformance for SQL Server 2019 as a Content Store will allow US make the move for all platforms sinc...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Azure AD authorization integration with Cognos Analytics on Cloud (CAoC)

Azure AD is currently supported through OpenID connect. However, the automated integration is currently limited to authentication and you have to assign user to Cognos groups and roles manually to implement authorization.You can manually upload fi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Enable Drillthroughs from PDF Files opened in Acrobat Reader

For security reasons, our users are not allowed to open PDF files inline in their browser. Instead, these files always opened externally in Acrobat Reader. However, drillthroughs are not possible from there: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/lin...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered