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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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Reports can only be saved on same location

We noticed that saving a report (in the new interface) in the delivery options only applies to the report itself. It is not seemingly possible to save the report in a different path. If we use the classic overview and stop the delivery, we can sti...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Reduce nb of click to edit report view

The path to edit report view in CA 11.0.12 is longer and less understandable than tin CA 10.2.1 (cf example)The user in CA 11 need to click on the number of parameters in order to access to the edit button.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement load-balancing in Cognos Analytics

Implement load-balancing in Cognos Analytics
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Update Trigger event when Data updated to Cloud

No current way to trigger an event to inform subscribers when new PowerCube data which their report uses is updated.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Scheduled Reports: Ability to include Report Execution Timestamp in the notification Email

We have a client requirement where client wants to include the report execution timestamp in the notification email which is sent to them for a scheduled report. Currently, in the Notification email, we cannot add any metadata related to the Repor...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Separate admin console

Separate admin console
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Notebook visualization don't show what notebook and path the visualization was add from

I am look at a sample and it is telling the notebook needs to be relinked. Since I didn't create the dashboard or report, I can only guess what notebook the visualization came from and the name of the visualization from the notebook. Need to be ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

scheduling administrative tasks

Possibility to e.g. schedule restart of dispathers. schedule refresh report server connections
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Snap to align all dashboard widgets with a single action

Dashboards can have numerous widgets of varying dimensions on a tab. It can be very time consuming for a dashboard author to make the dashboard look polished because it requires adjusting individual widgets to ensure that widgets are elegantly ali...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

capabilities option for saving to external file system.

We have jobs that save to an external file location and then automation, but had users also saving to this location who should not be allowed to. It caused errors with automation. There is no option to stop users from doing this.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration