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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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Do not log error messages in cognos logs when users use cancel button in prompt pages

we would like to avoid having errors in logs due to users using cancel button in prompt pages. Today when they click cancel in prompts there is error in logs/audit which we do not consider normal as it is standard user activity.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Control Metric Dump for each dispatcher independently

Currently enabling the Metric Dump in Cognos Administration (DISP.MetricDumpEnabled) causes all servers to start dumping metric based on the last server entered in the value field in Cognos Administration. The metricdumpconfiguration.xml of the la...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Repetitive values on axes of bar charts

For bar charts, when the x/y-axis range is less (<10) then the values on the axis tends to repeat. This happens because cognos auto range rounds off the numbers. The current chart auto-grouping of range works fine if the data range is large com...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release

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

Add Ability To Search Within A Security Group

There simply isn't an option to sort in the legacy admin portal on users in the Cognos namespace. When there are hundreds of users in a group that is unsorted it is difficult to find a user. I suggest a new sort feature be added to the glass UI. F...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 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

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

Business Intelligence Architecture and Deployment Guide 11

For all previous versions of IBM Cognos an 'Business Intelligence Architecture and Deployment Guide' was available.Now, with IBM Cognos Analytics 11, IBM has drastically changed the way services work and communicate with eachother: Use of URL rewr...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration