Skip to Main Content
IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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



ADD A NEW IDEA

Clear

Search results: Cognos Analytics

Showing 16

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - use datasource data items, not just fields in visuals

When creating a dashboard drill through definition you can only easily use data items that on visualisation to pass through to report parameters. When you have lots of navigation paths it isn't easy to pass through all the appropriate data items t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

More Authentication Support for Content Store with Azure SQL DB

Hi, As more company are moving to cloud, we need more modern method of authentication for content store. Currently for MSSQL, SQL or Windows authentication is supported. In the Azure Entra ID, we need support for authentication with the Managed Id...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Future consideration

Cognos Utility tool "CM Tool" should be work with OIDC configuration (for MFA) to recover the Framework Models from Content Store

After Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (OIDC) in Cognos Analytics, Cognos "CM Tool" is not working. Before MFA, our Cognos Analytics is configured with Windows AD authentication and CM tool was worked fine with Winodws AD. After we discuss...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

behavior when 'overwriting' folder using copy should be merge instead of replace (or present user with an option)

When you copy a folder over another folder with the same name, you are prompted to overwrite or rename. If you overwrite it doesn't simply overwrite the files that exist in both the target and source folders, it replaces the entire content of the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Option to select "Open In New window" for Dashboard Drill Down

While creating drill down in dashboard, designer do not have option to select "Open in new window". this option is not available in dashboard, report drill down has this option and designer check bob to "Open in new window". Opened ticket with IBM...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Ability to "Run Once" list of schedules under IBM Cognos Administration -> Schedules and My Schedules and Subscriptions screens

Why is it useful? Currently, in-order to run any enabled schedule once, administrators need to go into each schedule "Run the schedule once..." option. It is very time consuming run each schedule manually if there's a need to run list of schedules...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

More detail information at the different steps of a job

A report has been inserted 5 times in a job. Each report has different parameter values or output formats. The differences are not visible in the step overview. You have to check the step options for each step. Currently the step overview shows ty...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Hide option for dispatcher URL from past activities under My Schedules and Subscriptions

My Schedules and Subscriptions menu item is typically allowed for all consumer users with scheduling capability. Under Past activities window, report run details shows target dispatcher (URL) report run against, which shows app server name/IP and ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Enhanced audit housekeeping functionality

IBM Cognos Analytics should provide housekeeping functionality for the Audited Data. For example define rolling windows in which data is captured. Truncate Data based on Custom Dates. Offload Truncated / Rolling Window Data. Provide Presets for ce...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

IPPA Support for MS SQLServer through Windows Authentication

We have Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 installed using Azure for SSO, and MS SQLServer through Windows Authentication for all store db's (content store, notification store, etc.). After a long support call, we found out from IBM that IPPA database creati...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration