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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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Add Ability To Search Within A Security Group

Currently, any security group in Cognos has no way to search for users within the group. We'd like to have search capabilities within a security group. Since we cannot sort a group's membership, it makes it difficult to find certain individuals, e...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Save report output to Oracle Cloud object storage.

This functionality is working for AWS but not working for Oracle Cloud which we use to host Cognos Analytics. We created support ticket TS003696659 to troubleshoot this issue. Oracle Cloud should be supported along with AWS and Azure.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Supporting Prestogres in Cognos Analytics dashboards

Presto offers extremely fast access to HIVE/Hadoop data sets. Remote access is offered via Postgres - either through ODBC or JDBC; an intermediate process on the server routes request from the client to presto using the Postgres driver (prestogres...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need Congos Workspace Advanced tool available in Cognos 11

We simply want two different reporting tools: one for IT Prof, and one for end users because in most cases, there are very complicated reports which are only be done by IT, not by end users, and also easy to segregate the security control. It's ve...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

group queries (e.g. in folders)

our customer often uses more than 20 queries in his reports and wants to group the queries (e.g. in folders) to locate relevant queries faster for easier maintenance of his reports.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Calculations that span dimensions - valid for crosstab, invalid results for lists

Calculations (on dimensional model) that span dimensions give valid results for crosstab, invalid results for lists. Specifically for lists when combining with filters.See TS000148887 for use-case we had.See ibm document 'calculations that span di...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for EC Certs for LDAP Authentication

Please review Case number TS009073292. Hi, We are using SSL to communicate to LDAP Server from Cognos. LDAP team updated certificate but after that Cognos stopped connecting. I tried to import new certificate using steps mentioned at "https://www....
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Increase Number of AD User Groups that OKTA can pass to Cognos Analytics

The issue is with the actual number of AD user groups that OKTA can pass through to Cognos. We have 321 AD user groups at Mattel and the current OKTA limit is 100. This issue is delaying our migration to the IBM Cognos Cloud. We need the following...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hiding 'Send report to mobile device' option under Report delivery method in Cognos 11 Cloud

Hi Team, On Cognos 11 cloud portal for any report when we choose Report 'Run as' > 'Run in background' > 'Advanced' > 'Delivery', we can see 'Send report to mobile device' option. we want to hide this option for group of users (based o...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

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