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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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Sending burst reports from a generic email

The Registrar's office wanted to use the burst option available for sending out reports to their users. But whenever that function was activated the email delivery had the report author's email as the sender, while it is supposed to be from the re...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

IMAP (and TLS over IMAP) support

Product: IBM Cognos 10.2.2Actor: Janalakshmi Financial Services IBM Cognos is commonly used product for BI reporting. Description: Our team uses IBM Cognos 10.2.2 for BI reporting. We also use feature of Cognos to send reports as email attachment ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add TM1/PA subset editor as prompt object in CA11

We would like to have as improvement in integration between CA11 and TM1/PA the Planning Analytics subset editor as prompt object in reports/dashboards same way as you expose treepromts in reports. That is something our users are asking for as it ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change location of templates folder

The 'Templates' folder must be located at the root level of Team Content in order for templates to function properly. However I often design folder structures where the root level folders have dedicated purposes based on user personas. Being able ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Default File Name for PDF

While saving a PDF file, the default name is not appearing same as report name, where as all the other options has got that functionality.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompt Page: Add a Checkbox prompt

We have some reports where we are asking users if they want to include some items or not and have to use a value prompt with the values Yes and No. For example, if we provide a report on days, we would ask if they want only the working days with a...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Variable Text on Visualization Titles When Filtered

When two or more widgets are linked in a dashboard, it would be great if the titles on the widgets/visualizations changed with whatever is being filtered. We've found that the only way to achieve anything like this currently is to use something li...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Ability To Search Within A Security Group

There simply isn't an option to sort in the legacy admin portal on users in the Cognos namespace. When there are hundreds of users in a group that is unsorted it is difficult to find a user. I suggest a new sort feature be added to the glass UI. F...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Not under consideration

Add Visualization Customizer or editor tool in Cognos Analytics tool

To create, edit, we have to use visualization customizer and then upload in cognos library and test. Thats an overhead. It would be great to have visualization editor in Cognos Analytics itself. So that an author can edit some basic changes like a...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide option to set preferred user name than generated Informix user

We are OEM to IBM Cognos Analytics and our field fail to install cognos analytics using easy install option in some customer environments for POCs as customers have limitation of not using local users or simple user names such as Informix. When w...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration