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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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Removing Email Address from Run History Details Page

As part of the GDPR regulations that are coming into effect, we are required to remove any email addresses that might be exposed in Cognos Connection. When a report is scheduled / run in the background and set to be emailed to a specific email add...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

List of data sources in Cognos Administration listed in a flat list. We should use folder structures.

There is no way to organize the data sources in Cognos Connection Administration.The current offering is a list. It would be more advantageous to allow folders so an administrator could group the data sources in a more logical manner. The problem ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support localization of Theme

As a robust enterprise solution, IBM Cognos Analytics supports several great localization options. However, we are not able to customize the Administration > Customization > Theme based on language. It would be great if Cognos had an option ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Mobile: Other option to create Legacy studios and Manage button in browser

We are unable to view the Other option to create Legacy studios and Manage button in browser (not from cognos mobile app) from Mobile.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Unavailability of 'Save the report as a report view' option for Delivery in Jobs

We could not find an option called "Save the report as a report view" in Analytics View to save the report as a report view for a report in the job from the report properties, so we are unable to view the report details from the Job when a report ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Added a 'highlighter' color option that would allow sections of a report image to be highlighted

Added a 'highlighter' color option (e.g. translucent) that would allow sections of a report image to be highlighted either by using the pen or a drawing object (e.g. rectangle) instead of just underlined by a pen or outlined by a box.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve jobs options and features

Better usability and improve productivity Hi , i would like to suggest some improvements regarding jobs on cognos. i have a similar scenario: users have at disposal some views to see the results of prelaunched reports. those reports are built with...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Identify all report Views linked to a report.

Hello, We would like to have the possibility to identify all report views linked to a report to anticipate a new delivery on a specific report and its impact on existing report views.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

To enable the font color to be red(or other color) when number below zero

It is known that we can use conditional style to change a number color to red or whatever when it is below zero. However, if a report contains a lot of figures (like 20+), it is very stupid to apply 20+ conditional styles on these items one by one...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Self service for Top or Bottom function

The standard selection for the "Top or Bottom" function in the report studio, is just the KPI of the crosstab.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration