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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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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

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

Change default in Data Sets to turn off preview feature upon opening

In data sets today, the preview is always turned on by default when you open it. This should be turned off by default and only pull back data upon request
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Selfservice to upload Custom Controls and Images in Cognos Analytics on Cloud

Feature or way to create folders and uploading Images and Custom Controls as Self-service in Cognos Analytics on Cloud.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Add more lines to line-column chart

Add more values to line-column chart line field, similarly like on a simple line chart. Lines would be differentiated by colors.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

View Mode dashboard, allow changing of top or bottom #

When a user has a dashboard open in view mode, allow them to change the top/bottom function and #
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

See full report / report view / shortcut Location

I'd like copy report location into the clipboard. There is Location in the report properties. But the path is cropped. I can't select the path and copy paste to email.Shortcuts have the same problem. Shortcuts have Shortcut to property. The value ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Detailed descriptions on reports or other objects do not show

In version 10 easy to see the detailed descriptions on reports or other objects. In version, 11 the only way I can figure out how to see these descriptions is to individually click on each one
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Custom URL pass Locale()

In cognos 11.X you can not pass the locale by using run.outputLocale through a URL no more. Support advised to open a RFE
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

FIPS140-2 Bouncy Castle Compliant

In reviewing the security elements for IBM Cognos and it has come to our attention that it uses the "BouncyCastle" java archive, which is NOT validated for FIPS 140-2, which is a DoD security requirement for software encryption tools.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered