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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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Enhance Data Table with interactive features of List (i.e. sort by column)

We would like to use the new data table, that is available since 11.1.6 in our reports. But we are missing the interactive features, that are available for the Lists in reports. Especially the function to sort by any column is often used and needed.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dock Fields closer to the Sources on a Dashboard

I love the dashboard interface changes in v11.1.6. I especially like having the "Fields" open without having to open the visualization. A suggestion I have is to give users the ability to dock the Fields section closer to the Source section.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Email Encryption using third party software like Voltage

We would like to have the capability to integrate the emails sent from Cognos with an encryption software such as voltage. It would usually require the capability to modify the header information to include a tag (Eg: “X-Voltage sysencrypt”).S...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove Select a Delivery Method instead or Waiting

In previous versions it was possible to hide the message "Select a Delivery Method instead or Waiting", which prevents users from submitting their running report into the background.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a recycle bin for administrators

Users delete items by mistake and it would be nice to have a way to retrieve those items easily. It could empty on a rolling cycle to reduce size
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show full path on tooltip in Administration for CJAP objects

Tooltip in administration not showing full path for objects coming from CJAP namespace.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Showing sender Full name instead of email address when cognos report is scheduled to email report

Hi, When we scheduled a report and select the option "send by email”, Report is delivered to our inbox with full email address instead of its name, for example if I schedule a report it will come to my inbox with email address AB_CD@ssga.com , o...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Correct filename when exporting report to PDF

When opening a report in PDF and try to download it, the filename is always "ext.pdf", no matter, which report is being opened. This issue occurs only in Internet Explorer, when doing the same steps in Chrome for example - the filename is "report_...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add toggle to change values from Axis into percentages

Add toggle to change axis dataformat in chart from values to percentages and vice-versa
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Uploading cognos report output directly in google drive

Uploading cognos report output directly in google drive
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration