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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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Please Certify for Oracle 19c

Please Certify for Oracle 19c as this is needed as soon as possible for our customer upgrades.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Auto Sort Date Fields

Auto sort date fields such as; Month Name, Day of Week. Ascending & descending typically does not make sense.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Support for TLS 1.2 in Cognos Business Intelligence

Cognos cgi/gw modules for apache (mod2_2_cognos.so) are built against openssl 0.9.8. This restricts protocol support to TLS 1.0. This in turn restricts the level of security we can offer through our corporate web portal.We wish to be able to suppo...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Ability to copy Dashboard XML specification

The ability to copy the XML specification of a Cognos 11.x dashboard like for regular reports.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Default and Custom User Profiles in Cognos Analytics 11

Unlike previous versions, CA 11 does not have the functionality to set global default profile for all users or create custom profiles for different user groups. This functionality is important for us as we are in the early stages of product deploy...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

ability to lock a dashboard or view only mode

Within our company, we have many power users with strong analytical skills that are making dashboards for key managers and decision makers. However, these dashboards cannot be locked and many individuals have changed an analysts work without even ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Add functionality for Setting a dashboard as Read Only. Being able to set the permissions to edit/delete at a dashboard level.

At the moment the permissions to edit or delete a dashboard need to be done at a user/group level. We need each user to keep its capabilities. We are trying to iframe a dashboard into our application. The problem is that after the user clicks anyw...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Display SQL generated by Dashboard visualizations

Currently the only way to see the SQL generated by a dashboard is to have the system admistrator stop the query service, turn on JDBC logging, and start the Query Service. Starting/stopping the query service on a server is burdemsome and can not a...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Apply drill through to all tabs within dashboard

We have a dashboard where users can do a discovery for new business opportunities. The dashboard has many tabs where each of the tabs represent a use case. We also have a report, which is on transaction level and the user can download it and use i...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Calculation Order or Priority or Aggregation rule

Currently if a Calculation is applied for getting % of Revenue or Price per unit for the data module. The summary level of such elements is not calculation driven. We need to select the Avg as an option which gives a simple avg. But in such cases ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered