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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,


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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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Provide detailed documentation regarding the "Search" feature

The "new and improved" search feature in Cognos Analytics is currently poorly documented.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Configuration on the experience with downloadable report formats

When generate report with downloadable format, a popup/ tab page would be created and not closing automatically. This would make user confusion as the new window state "Download this report in Excel format". Suggest to add option to configure Cogn...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow Cognos BI to send encrytped email

Add the ability to BI to send encrypted emails containing report output (either as attachment or imbedded HTML).
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to change sender email address when bursting cognos reports

Hello IBM Support, We have a burst report which needs to be emailed. If we burst the report as is then the mail recipients see sender email as that of the user who has logged in to Cognos. Our problem is that the sender email through which we want...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Make Report Modified Date - Actual Date Report Changed

The Report Modified date now changes randomly and does not reflect the date the report was actually changed by a user - this make visually auditing for report changes impossible
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Contact of Reports or Folders

In Version 10 it was possible to set a contact in the properties of every report or folder. With this information the consumers was able to contact the right person, if he has any questions about the report or the data. This Feature is deprecated ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Management functions over Data Sets

Data Sets are currently stored in the Content Store. Much like what used to exist for My Data Sets, please provide an Admin screen to view and manage Data Sets. Alerts (event studio or other) that will warn an Admin of increases to Data Sets will ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add option to Cognos Hyperlink to open in new Tab/Window

Currently, in Interactive mode, when report authors add a dataitem to leverage Hyperlink, there are no controls to allow authors to set the links to open in new Tab or new window. We have to train our users to hold down the Ctrl or Shift keys whic...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 4 Functionality already exists

Add "Master Detail Relationships" to Singletons

Singleton is the only data container object in Report Studio that does not support master detail relationships. While it is usually possible to get around this limitation by using repeaters, some cases require drastic and complex work-arounds.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multiple schedules per report.

Could we please allow multiple schedules per report? Needing to create multiple report views just to schedule them is very inconvenient and leads to lots of clutter. When creating a schedule you could require a name and a description for the sched...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted