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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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Ability to configure an "audit" email address that is automatically copied to all emails being sent from Cognos

A customer of ours moved from on-prem to cloud service. On-prem, they used internal smtp and had a "send" rule added to automatically cc an audit inbox so they had visibility of exactly what being sent from Cognos and to who. Using their own smtp ...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Waterfall visualization - legend labels should be localized for any output format

The waterfall visualization is only localized when using HTML output.Other output formats like PDF generates for example legend labes only in English. Neither product nor content language has any impact. Alternative the labels should be customizab...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Waterfall visualization localization should be triggered by content language

Actually the Waterfall visualization uses product language to localize information.We noticed that the language chosen for the legend label depends on product language. Furthermore the legend label is hard coded in English when report out is not H...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Dashboard - Views

We really need to have Dashbord views (as we have for ReportViews) that allow us to set specific dashboard values while having on sigle master Dashboard. Thank you.
about 14 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Key pair AuthN of Cognos with Snowflake jdbc driver

We currently are using AD as our namespace and would like to connect to Snowflake via JDBC connection using key pair AuthN.
about 15 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Incorporate Image Service into the base product.

Incorporate Image Service into the base product so you do not need a additional docker installation of a Linux container so organizations will not install docker.
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Add "CM.OutputScript" style option to "Define File System Locations"

Back in the Cognos 8 days, the only way to save reports to the file system was through advanced settings in the content manager service. With the addition of Define File System Locations, that greatly simplified the process. Back then there was al...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Granular API Key permissions

API Keys should allow for granular permissions across all objects and capabilities, ultimately limited by the associated user's capabilities. This should allow us to assign a specific API key to only run a single report, or access a specific folde...
28 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted
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More Properties/Editing options for Rave 2 Visualizations

We would like more properties/editing options implemented into the new Rave 2 Visualizations (custom palettes specifically). Also would like to have the ability to add conditional formatting or a conditional palette to a visualization.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

ability to set default value for email delivery method.

When users run a report using ‘Run as’ and select email as delivery method there will be two options they can select one or both.1. Include link 2. Attach output Prior CA 11.1.7FP4 the default selection was option 1: Include link. IBM made an enha...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted