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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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Missing Analysis Studio Functionality

There are missing Analysis Studio functionality that is missing in Report Authoring. If IBM is expecting normal business users to use Report Authoring as a suitable replacement for Analysis Studio, then IBM needs to make all the functionality avai...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Copy Conditional Styles from one report to another

In case of developing a group of reports within one project the styles the design of data tables is supposed to be the same. And it is hardly convinient to create the same Conditional Styles in every single report when you have dozens of them. In ...
27 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Report References and Bursting

Report references allow you to create booklet like reports containing other reports. Report references are awesome! With very little effort you can combine reports. And there is no maintenance, changes in the reference report are automatic in the ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Password Protected for Excel or CSV Schedules

We have the requirement that the excel or CSV report output should password protection
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Output CSV file, change delimiter at report level

Currently RSVP.CSV.DELIMITER allows a tab (default) or comma selection when a report is output as a CSV file type. This is a global selection and causes issues when third party applications require files to be sent, but each one potentially differ...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Reporting filters to use Prompt Info properties from Framework Manager

We want the filter functionality (not just generated prompts) in Reporting to use the Prompt Info properties - Prompt Type, Display Item Reference, Use Item Reference, and Filter Reference. As we try to move our users off of Query Studio, using Re...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

add lineage feature to find dependent reports for a data module

my business team stakeholders asked to provide an audit of dependent reports on data modules within the production portal the audit was asked for to understand if the reports which are running on schedule can be assigned to a different user or sim...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Enable using Cognos viewer in reports which use drill through in CA version 11.2.4.2

It is necessary to add the possibility of using Cognos viewer mode to open the target report when the source report opens in Cognos viewer when using drill trough. This functionality works fine until version 11.1.7.1. When you can use Cognos viewe...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics encrypts the Excel report

For the existing Cognos Analytics, can export Excel report. However, it cannot be encrypted. Is there any roadmap for supporting Excel encrypted?
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Export as a Gantt Chart

Our customer is looking for the ability to export as a Gantt Chart for reports. They would like to be able to select this as an option, similar to Viewing the report in HTML, PDF, XML, and Excel. I have followed other cases for Gantt Charts within...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration