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 3687 of 15640

Save Report output to Box and OneDrive

We are looking for a solution where we can allow users to schedule their report's output to Box or OneDrive accounts. This will bring a lot of value for our users as often our users schedule reports to be delivered via email and some of them are r...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request to add a feature for storing trusted credentials in Cognos Analytics without password grant configuration in a configured OIDC namespace

Currently, Cognos Analytics 11.x requires password grant configured on the IdP in order to store trusted credentials for an OIDC namespace. However, password grant is not the most secure grant type to work with, and as such, I would like to reques...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Future 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.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

retrieve the list of email recipients that were distributed by one of the job burst's reports.

Currently, retrieving the list of email recipients for each report within a job from the audit database is not feasible. Therefore, we are seeking a modification to the audit database in order to enable this retrieval.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Viewing Dashbords with Filters

I have a dashboard with global and local filters available. After opening the dashboard for viewing, if I then change any of the filters then the Cognos connection is seeing this as a change to the dashboard, this should not be the case. If I am v...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SDK connecting with OKTA via OpenID

On Cloud we cannot use Gateway to hide multiples namespaces and we are usign OpenID with Okta. We have applications running with SDK and now it must to connect using OpenID.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Default action when accessing shared URL

IBM Cognos analytics V11.0.8 introduced the capability to set a default action for reports. A report default action could be set to 'Run' which causes the report to run when the report is clicked in the interface regardless of the existence of a s...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to maintain the audit database for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

An audit database comes with Cognos Analytics on Cloud but client users lack the ability to manage and maintain it. A user needs the ability to manage the volume of data retained in the database and to be able to truncate data for a specific time ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Hide show generated sql

For security reason i would be able to hide to basic users the possibility to show generated sql and so view the internal tables , connection,schema etc.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 2 Future consideration

Call pre-executed Active Report output version

The customer wants to call a pre-executed report output version. If we use the URL that is in the new "share"-option in C11R05 the report is executed, the saved output-version is not called.If we use the following syntax the cognos navigation on t...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration