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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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Cookies Not Marked Secure

A cookie was found that does not require the use of SSL for secure transmission. The secure attribute tells the browser to only send the cookie if the request is being sent over a secure channel such as HTTPS. This will help protect the cookie fro...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cookies Not Marked HttpOnly

We observed that some cookies for the site were set without the HTTP Only attribute.A cookie is a small amount of data stored on the user's hard drive in order to maintain state with the application. The use of session ID cookies allows users to a...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Cube: there is no way to model a dimension such that members can move within a level without breaking a report

Reports (both professionally authored and business authored) break if they include members that have moved within a level. If a report is created with members, and these members move to a new parent, then that report will no longer run. There is n...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need a detailed log for the import/export of Cognos BI deployments which shows all the sucess/failure status of all objects

As of now, to know whether the cognos BI deployment is successful or not, we have a high level summary status of deployment of success/fail in Cognos BI portal. Similar high level information is available in cogserver.log in the Cognos install dir...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to access Cognos Administration through a specific URL only

An additional option is requested to access IBM Cognos Administration through a separate Gateway URI only. Currently access to IBM Cognos Administration can only be restricted by capabilities.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove NetBIOS calls from Cognos BI

After much investigation, we have confirmed that Cognos BI uses NetBIOS when authenticating to an AD namespace using the UPN attribute. This should be changed to use DNS only.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 Content Backup/Restore

We would like the new Create and Manage Content to have the same abilities as the current Admin Console.., example being able to select a folder to backup to... PLUS, have the ability to lock down the Content Store access for Report Admin's... we ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Combined Filter Application – After Auto Aggregation problem

When creating a combined filter in Cognos Workspace Advanced against a relational package, the selection for Application of the filter defaults to 'After auto aggregation.' regular filters default to 'Before auto aggregation.' This default, which ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict report output format

We would like the option to restrict the output versions of a report on a report by report basis (not system-wide by user class).
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Inadequate Application Error Handling and Suppression

Inadequate Application Error Handling and Suppression
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration