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

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

Renaming of file attachments in Event Studio email task

We are using even studio to generate output from multiple reports and send them in single mail to with all attachments. When we attach report outputs, it is autometically adding locale information as suffix which users don't want to see. Also, we ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show Run options for anonymous user when app bar is hidden

Show Run options for anonymous user when app bar is hidden
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve documentation on subscription (vs schedule) feature

Existing documentation on the subscription feature describes how to enable subscriptions, but doesn't clearly explain how it works or how it is different from schedules. I learned the following from opening a support ticket. When asked if IBM coul...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make dashboard "Smart title" smarter

Currently when creating a dashboard, user adds fields to a widget and the smart title is automatically generated. However, these "smart" titles are created using the language locale of the user who created the widget. When a user with another loca...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Previous/Next Record Function

Hi I've seen other BI Tools use their own Previous Function to access Previous records. Not looking at the Running-count or running-diff Functions as those are for Metrics As of SQL 2012, MS has introduced Lag and Lead Functions in SQL
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

View Activities & Schedules, Allow for users that do not have Scheduling capability

Company users rely on Cognos team for all scheduling, users are not allowed to schedule. However, users want to know if their report schedules are failing/succeeding, they want transparency into schedules, without the ability to modify/edit/delete...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under 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.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Disable User Accounts When Option Checked

In previous versions of Cognos Analytics, a user account could be disabled by placing a check in the appropriate box within the user's advanced profile property sheet. This box, still exists but for whatever reason no longer works as one would exp...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted