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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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Generate Encrypted Password During Silent Install of Web Tier/Gateway

For Linux, to install only the gateway on our webserver, we need to use a silent connect and install (cannot use GUI and will automate installation later). For a gateway only install, the installvariables.properties state that the encrypted passwo...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Information on Parse on Cognos 10/11 Cogserver.log

We are requesting on how the Cogserver.log is parsed to poll this data to our monitoring tools. Unlike the cogconfig_response.csv, there is not defined format for the cogserver.log. Automatically polling this information to our monitoring tools fo...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possible for an extensions to just open children folder

When using extension to add a folder to sidebar it only shown all folder structure. I would like to only show children of the selected folder
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - when opening a data source, have a recents folder like in main navigation

when opening a dashboard data source, have a recents folder just like in main navigation
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - allow users to search pins based on tags

CA Dashboarding - allow users to search pins based on tags. There is a search capability, but there is nothing to search by. Need an easy way for user to find pinned widgets.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - allow users to abbreviate multiple widgets at one time

allow users to abbreviate multiple KPI widgets at one time. As is, users can only abbreviate one widget at a time. Typically on a dashboard, there are multiple KPIs, and it's likely that if one needs to be abbreviated, all need to be abbreviated.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - add search capability to finding a data source

As is, in CA Dashboarding, users need to navigate through folder structure to find a data source add search to finding a data source. Adding search will allow user to find the source they want much quicker.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Collapsible hierarchy prompt into new Dashboard

Tree prompt is a great way to explore and filter hierarchies, but the current hierarchy prompt does not function well with large hierarchies, because you can not collapse hierarchy branches. Please provide collapsible hierarchy prompt
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Cognos BI to integrate with FileNet CPE 5.2.1.5 and greater

Update the code to integrate between Cognos BI and FileNet CPE 5.2.1.5 and higher.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New Data lists: Insert Drill-Through

In Cognos Analytics there are the new data lists for reporting, which are quite useful. Unfortunately you can not insert a drill-through (like in a normal list object) to other report. That would be quite useful.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration