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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Browser last prompt location

Scenario: When the report have a lot of prompts and user needs to scroll down to see all the prompts. Problem: re-prompt button causes page refresh and web page returns at the beginning of the page.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Dasboard Export to Excel Format

Ability to export dashboards with layout to Microsoft Excel format
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 4 Future consideration

Save report output (Excel/PDF) to a local network directory

Currently, when generating reports from Cognos on Cloud, there is no option to direct the report output to a local network file directory. AS-is, without this functionality end users would be unreasonably required to download thousands of pdf file...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted
110 VOTE

Missing functionality from C10 to C11: "Send report as email" or "Email Report"

In previous versions of Cognos Business Intelligence (10.2.x) we had the option to send a report by email directly from the Cognos Viewer - this option no longer exists in Cognos Analytics (11.0.6). See use case for details and screenshots.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Improvement to Report Bursting: Recover from a fail, better error reporting

When bursting a report it is difficult to work out which parts of the burst have been successful or not. After a burst Cognos should be able to tell you which burst keys were successfully burst and if any emails were sent. It should also be able t...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

The feature of viewing package data sources is not present in Cognos11

The feature of viewing package data sources in package > actions > more is not present in Cognos11. We like this feature to be in Cognos 11
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

MS Teams integration for Cognos cloud

Microsoft Teams integration is available for Cognos on Prem, but not on any of the Cloud offerings. This is a major drawback for cloud and should be implemented asap.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Submitted

Configure Cognos Mail Server using OAuth

With the deprecation of basic authentication scheduled for October, the configuration of our SMTP server (Exchange online) will no longer work as this uses basic authentication. We need a way to use OAuth to connect to our 365 smtp server. There i...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Deployment and Versioning with Cognos Analytics

We use various COGNOS components, which are however to be seen as parts of an overall product. Reports, framework manager packages, TM1 cubes, etc. are interdependent and must be handled accordingly.In concrete terms, this means that consistency m...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Layout Component References - for everything!

LCRs and Report Styles are one of the best features of reporting in an enterprise environment. They allow for object reuse across hundreds of reports. Ensuring consistency in look and feel and a massive reduction in report maintenance costs. For e...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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