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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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Burst functionality is not available for reports with Crosstab & Charts

Our reports have only Crosstab and charts, adding a list does not help. Please let us know if we can burst the report with only crosstab & charts
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable default IBM alerts

With Cognos Analytics 11.1.4 a new feature was presented: Alert messages. There are two types. After every login default IBM "What's new" banners apper and admins are able to enable own messages. There should be a configuration parameter or switch...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Issue - Data formatting on Conditional blocks

1. Data formatting defined for the cell doesn't work inside conditional blocks.2. Search Enhancement - Cannot search for report within subfolder. Always, search option shows result from the root folder in cognos connection3. Copy and Paste Enhance...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Default text in the email body

The ability to add default text to an email body when distributing reports, similar to a signature section. Currently the same text needs to be set up for every email report and would be easier for maintenance or other messages (holidays etc) if t...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drill through to a specific tab

Our team uses IBM Cognos Report Studio to create Reports for our customer. We have created a report with three tabs. In the second tab there is a Drill-through to the same tab, the second. When the author opens the report in Report Studio and clic...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Manage Data Source Connection Schemas as limited user

To expose a schema as a data server component for Data Modules, the administrator has to modify the connection and apply the schema. When in that screen, the user could also drop the data source or connection. As an OEM provider that sets up solut...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Setup Automatic Alerts when Background Report Execution is Queued Up

when multiple reports are running at the same time as background process, lets say one of the bad report caused most of the reports into pending state. we would like to have a feature that can alert us indicating multiple reports are in pending st...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Single Sign on support using Dispatcher port 9300

Log in information is required while accessing from dispatcher port 9300. Single Sign on credentials are not being passed on.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio: modify email body

In Event Studio, I would like to modify texts and email body when sending an email.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Singleton Object to Dashboard

It is difficult to create dashboard tabs that are centered around single office or employee since there is no singleton object on Dashboards. Therefore it is difficult to show office address, country, phone number in a appealing way on the dashboa...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration