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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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Enable customization of authoring perspective

The new black and white design in Authoring (Report Studio) has caused massive annoyance at some of our customers. The reasons given were: generally confusing color is missing in the icons windows (e.g. expression editor) are not clearly delimited...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Rest API for security group

Hello, We need an entegration with our security team. We did it before other BI tools with their rest api. But in Cognos we cannot use security group with members. Our security team don't want to use SDK because of our microservice standarts. You ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Being able to generate output in Excel format for an Audit report

Create Execute reports, dashboards and stories by package for past 30 days as a normal report (in addition Active report)
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Optimizations of the "Run in background" dialog

There are simply too many clicks required to run reports in background. When I activate 'Run in background', more functions pop up. To get to the 'Delivery' container, I have to scroll down first. If I then activate 'Send report by email' and have...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Add additional options to the Share functionality

We often share reports with users via the share functionality within the portal (right-click>Share>Link). This creates a url which can then be emailed (or embedded in other reports and web pages etc). We often need to further edit the url to...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Increase the limit to add more than 20 parameters in System level in Cognos Admin console.

Hi Team, We had an activity recently to Un-register and add the dispatchers again in Cognos11 , but we lost all existing parameters after the task. And we decided to add all parameters in System level Instead of Individual dispatchers , but we cou...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

CA 11.2 all quick launch hide to be turned off/on

Currently you can hide the quick launch in the portal, when you log back in the quick launch is no longer hidden. Would like have stay hidden until I choose to unhide it.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Add BigQuery Connector to Cognos On Demand Trial

Unable to evaluate Cognos because no bigquery connection available.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

add option to search members in hierarchy by MUN not just by caption

today we can search elements in the hierarchy (for dimensional packages) by caption (right click the hierarchy in the navigation tree > search members...) and we would appreaciate to search by member unique names as those are the only one uniqu...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

display currently opened objects next to each other in 11.2.0

Now all currently opened objects are displayed one below the other. Is would be useful, to display them one next to each other, at least the latest of them. The benefit would be, that they could be reached then within 1 click.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration