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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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Change Cognos for Microsoft Office interface for Microsoft Office 2013 SDI

With the change of Microsoft Office interface from MDI to SDI in Office 2013 the Cognos for Microsoft Office panel will automatically appear in a new instance of Office when an existing instance of Office is open with the panel already open.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable kerberos/certificate authentication for Cognos content store in z/OS DB2

When building Cognos content store in z/OS DB2, we need to provide id/password on Cognos configuration portal for DB2 connections. We don't have known password for most IDs in z/OS due to security policy and most DB2 applications have supported Ke...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Hover Not Working

When using a dashboard visualization that contains a shape, the value does not appear when the mouse hovers over the visualization. The current workaround is to: create two identical summaries add a shape to one summary place the non shape summary...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Control Over Fully Interactive Toolbar

Being able to control what users within a role see allows you to setup one Dashboard for your entire population of users(no matter what level of expertise they have at running and understanding a report/data. Fully Interactive (FI) toolbar gives a...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Protect Export/Deployment File against Brute Force Attacks

Simple scenario: 1. Log in to application as an administrative user, e.g. as a user with the role Project_Developers. 2. Navigate to Manage > Content and create a new backup and protect it with the password 12345678. 3. Switch to the Restore ta...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Use New Interactive Report Functionality via SDK

When embedding content into other applications via SDK, only the 10.2 functionality is available. There are none of the new features, such as sorting and filtering, that are available directly in the Cognos portal.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Data Table with interactive features of List (i.e. sort by column)

We would like to use the new data table, that is available since 11.1.6 in our reports. But we are missing the interactive features, that are available for the Lists in reports. Especially the function to sort by any column is often used and needed.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Displaying active report output without addressbar or customise the URL in the addressbar

Hi, We got a requirement to customise the dashboard's URL and my question is once I have built the Custom URL when publishing this to External Customers, is there a way that not to show the full URL in the browser but a cut down version so the use...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

option to hide "My Credentials (Manage)" in the UI

Currently we offer Cognos as a service. The client subscribes to our product and can use Cognos as their analytics offering. Because the service is physically hosted by us we need to hide My credentials (Manage) option
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

change the color of the font based on custom palletes for chart

Please add the feature to report studio for chart property to change the color of the font align with custom palletes
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration