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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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Adapt the name of the export file to the license information

The name of the export file for the used licenses should contain the name of the environment / server. So an assignment is better possible
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Change Report Template on the Fly

It would be very handy to have the ability to change the selected template for a report during it's development and not have to start over it you need to switch from Freeform to a predetermined layout.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Event Studio:Option to change font or font size in the Event Studio email body

The font size of the text for Email tasks in Event studio is small. Please provide button on toolbar to increase or decrease the size, also add button to change the Font.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add Module Source To Properties Of Module

Instead of having to edit the module and drill into the module tree to find the data server(s) the module is based on, add this to the Properties of the module.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Parameterized url with Azure OIDC has limitation of 4096 Bytes

Unlike IBM Directory Service (Or some Local Authentication Providers) Azure AZ supports only 4096 Bytes in the request url in its authorization end Point. This is causing issue with existing report with large columns passed to Cognos as query stri...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

CSV or Excel Report Output or Report from a Schedule as Report or Dashboard Data Source

Currently there is no option of a Medium Size Datasource to develop a Report or Dashboard. Spreadsheets can be used but refreshing it in a daily frequency is a problem and not automated. Instead, a report as a datasource or a report output as a Da...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Cannot copy/paste from Team content to Users' My content

I didn't find a way to copy a report from Team content to a User My content ... in v10 I just had to click checkbox in front of the report, hit copy button, then go in the security, browse to find the user My folder, go in and Paste. Now the only ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Title property for hyperlink

When using the hyperlink control with Visual Studio there is no property for the html title attribute. Title is enables the html mouseover option. In the current version when have to use an html control or a custom control for such basic functiona...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filter search results on other types than reports/dashboards/data/folders like shortcuts, report views, jobs like in C10

Filter search results on other types than reports/dashboards/data/folders like shortcuts, report views, jobs like in C10
about 6 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