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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 connection to Active Directory Global Catalog

We need to be able to connect to Active Directory Global catalog via default port 3268 as preffered way to interract with our AD (instead of interacting with global domain root having several domains bellow like Europe/US/Asia/... ). Cognos Doc: "...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Cognos Whitelist function with wildcards for subdomains

The idea is directly related to PMR TS005171959 and the feature request was recommended by the IBM. Currently the Cognos Whitelist function only allows a list of hard coded domain names e.g. "domain1.de, domain2.com, ..." If a user wants to send a...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data server - Refreshing metadata should not select new tables

Refreshing Cognos metadata from SAP HANA by default selects all the available new tables from HANA DB, every time we will have to deselect all tables and then select the tables needed for my reporting, which is causing unnecessary delay as our DB ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display Screen tips for Planning Analytics / TM1 dimensions elements in Cognos Report studio

When developing Cognos Framework Manager models we can add Screen tips for query subjects and query items. This is very helpful for business users as we can clarify usage for certain elements. When creating/republishing Cognos packages with TM1 cu...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Remove underline from text objects (especially for Hyperlink class)

I would like to have the option in the Report Module to remove underlines from text objects (Hyperlink classes). As of now we only have the option to enable underline for text objects.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automatically retrive latest SSL certs from LDAP or Active Directory for LDAPS instead of manual updating them in SSL Cert Database

Current Scenario - Every time SSL cert is renewed/updated on LDAP server, Cognos administrator needs to manually update the CERT database on Cognos server and restart Cognos Services. Too much coordination is needed between multiple teams on this,...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Get notification (toaster) when Dataset and/or Job has finished loading (even if started as part of a job)

If user subscribes to the notification the toaster is notifying "Dataset loaded" and or "Job xxx finished" it sticks until closed by user. Really the feedback for a job finished successfully is lousy and the timestamp for datasets is not always in...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Option to copy prompt parameters between reports and report views

We are missing option to copy saved prompt parameters between report views or reports.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report- Default sorting for date fields

Today, in report, users have to click on the ascending or descending sort option to sort the date field values.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Transparent content manager switch

Today when a content manager switch to standby (as failover or when activating manually by admin team), the switch is not transparent towards users. The active sessions are kept but all ongoing report/report view/job exeuctions are failing. We wou...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration