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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


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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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New forecasting functionality in R4 needs additional features

If you include a target on a line, column or bar chart the forecasting is turned off. It should draw a forecast line for the target just like it does to the #. So if target is a static number the forecast line would remain static, if the target is...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Copy and Rename Audit Log not containing target location

Currently, whenever a user Renames or Save As.. a report, this log entry only shows the source report, not the destination. So Can you have the Audit also create an entry of the target? Possible fix would be that an operation of MOVE or MOVE or MO...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Upload/Append Schedule for a file

We have users that have receive upload files everyday and we would like to be able to Update or append to file using scheduling.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Set up "sent from" email address in task/schedule

We use tasks and schedules to send all our reports to all departments.Now because the creator of the task is also the emailaddress which is used, he/she also gets all responses to that automaticly sent reports. We would like to set up an emailaddr...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add option to CC and BCC for bursted reports

When bursting a report to an email address the client would like the option to also specify CC and BCC fields instead of all recipients being in the ""To"" field.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Copy other users my folder content to team content

As an administrator , while moving code from one environment to other or upgrading, we need to copy the user's my folder content into public folders/team content and move it back to my folders after the code deployment. I dont see this option in 1...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable SAML Support for Cognos Gateway Web servers (IIS /Apache) SSo

SAML Configuration support for Cognos Web servers /Gateway
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Customize message "Downloading this report in Excel format"

Thank you for contacting IBM Support The Downloading this report in Excel format message can not be changed This is set in part of the code of the program If this change is important to you then you can add this enhancement to our Ideas portal. ht...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

add advanced search options for namespaces when implementing data module security

When adding security based on (for example an active directory) namespace in data modules, there are no advanced search options available. In other menu's (for example when setting folder security) there are possibilities to search for a specific ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Framework Manager to Update the Metadata Information from Database

Framework Manager does not update the Description of the Database object, when we update the object. If the database did not have the Description at the time of import, even when we manually key in the Description / Screen Tip to the Database Laye...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration