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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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Improving garbage collector for DB connections

Database sessions and connections ar estill open and running, even if the script was stopped on Cognos-side.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Remove options for functionality Save on external Filesystem

We are offering customers to provide Reports via A2A which they have to store on the filesystem. Unfortunately many customers are using the standard report name to store the reports on the filesystem with the usage of 'replace existing files'. Due...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Set the same Group Span for multiple columns in List object in Report Studio

currently in report studio of Cognos, there is no way to highlight multiple columns and set the same group span. have to high light each column and click on the group span and select multiple time. This is very annoying and not user friendly, grea...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Option to enable and disable highlighting common cells in a Table in interactive dashboard

Right now when there are common cells in a Table in interactive dashboard, clicking one of the common cells will highlight all common cells. Sometime this is useful but sometime this create confusion looking at the table. One way I learnt is to ad...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Improper Session Management (PMR-TS007941522)

security can be tightened. Multiple sessions of are restricted.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

User should be able to login into Cognos application only one browser at a time and one desktop at a time. Should not be able to login Cognos application simultaneously in 2 or more desktops.

Security can be tightened, and user multiple sessions can be restricted.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Autocomplete enabled for the sensitive field - Cognos 11.1.7 IF9

This gives more security and userid/password is safe from intruders.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Proper role not defined for Edit options link in Run as dialog

Proper role not defined for Edit options link in Run as dialog E.g: Screen reader announces 'Edit options' for Edit options link
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Integrate MotioCI with Cognos Analytics SaaS

This MotioCI application(https://motio.com/products/motio-ci/) which is an addendum to Cognos application provides user friendly support by majorly enabling version control. This integration/ deployment of MotioCI application in cloud will help ma...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Functionality already exists

Company notification

Hello, My organization has enabled a notification beneath the green bar on preproduction in Cognos (preproduction will be down on a certain date). This notification appears every time a session is started. I start a lot of sessions during during m...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration