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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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Distribute reports by email with fixed sender

We've set up an Event Studio Agent to execute and distribute burst reports. Different people (from support) need to be able to start the agent, but all reports always need to be send using the same from email.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include Null Filter Works Strangely

I have a report with two columns in a list: Period Year and Month and Charges. At the top of the list is correctly a row for which the timeframe is empty (because the period has not been close yet for those entries). When I add a filter to the rep...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide/disable folder delete permissions without removing write permissions

Problem statement: In Cognos 11, a user with either the Professional Author or Business Author role can delete the entity folder for their company. These users have write permissions to the entity specific folder since they should be able to creat...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add ability to merge data in data sets instead of overwriting

Currently when edit data set in My Data Sets in the way to upload a new file into existing DB then existing data in DB will be overwritten. The ability is requested to be able to merge the new data with existing data in DB. A comfortable way would...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unable to edit Combined Filter from show filter option available in the Cognos 11.0.10 viewer

Not able to edit the Combined fitlers when we run the report from the Cognos 11.0.10 Viewer even though we specify the option 'Can be Changed in the Viewer' for the combined filter.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Tenant protected Audit database

We would like to give our customer that are set as different tenants in our environment capabilities to use the audit database.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Shift Click to Select Multiple Rows when in Preview View

We would like to select multiple rows when in Preview View. Typically we do this by holding down the shift key while clicking on additional rows. Example: when in report preview view, the user cannot select the top data row, and then shift-click t...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Deliver a warning when importing a deployment with security

When importing a deployment you may not know that the import has security enabled and it will overwrite the existing security. There should be a warning stating this.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Point(dot) chart, dots are overlapping, its not good for visualization

Cognos Analytics Dashboard: We cannot set the opacity on the chart, only the whole chart it self. The dots are overlapping each other, thus not every mark is visible on the chart. Allow to change the opacity of the dots on the chart.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Custom SQL in Report Authoring to specific datasource

We have a couple of datasources which all are modelled in a framework manager package or a data module. So the users can only use the package or datamodule but not the datasource itself. For some datasources we don't want to model or provide a dat...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration