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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


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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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Enhancement of security administration of capability Upload Files

In CA11, we can only administrate which group, role and user are granted or denied to use Capability Upload Files (Via Administration Console > Security > Capabilities > Upload Files). More permission details to secure per group, role and...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Dynamic tabs in reports based on page sets

As per CA 11.2.1 it is not possible to create a HTML report output based on a page set. RSV-VAL-0052 - cannot include pageset when report pages are viewed as tabs. implementing this feature would enable report authors to create dynamic tabbed repo...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Period of inaction while building a report. Notification is generated for the user to warn them of an approaching timeout

Period of inaction while building a report.Notification is generated for the user to warn them of an approaching timeout Part 2If you have a period of inaction. Cognos becomes unresponsive, but does not direct you back to login screen to re-login....
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CPD Cognos Analytics does not allow report ‘save to file’ in external managed NFS.

Customer WestPac requires an emergency fix to CPD Cognos Analytics service. The Cognos feature that Westpac is requesting is under investigation by the Cognos dev team. The feature is already available in our traditional Cognos deployment but not ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

IPPA Support for MS SQLServer through Windows Authentication

We have Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 installed using Azure for SSO, and MS SQLServer through Windows Authentication for all store db's (content store, notification store, etc.). After a long support call, we found out from IBM that IPPA database creati...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Include Master/Detail property to 11.1 Visualisations

Master/Detail relationship has always existed in Report Studio. But he is missing in the latest news visualization. This is a basic feature of Cognos and I do not understand how it is possible that it has not been implemented. it is necessary to...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Support for Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse and SQL Database

Provide official support for the following Microsoft Azure solutions. 1. Azure SQL Datwarehouse as a DQM data sourcehttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-data-warehouse/ 2. Azure SQL Database as a content store database.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add attachment option sending via email clicking on the share button

TS008910119 Add attachment option not available when sending via email clicking on the share button I review the details with PM. I receive the following response. This share by email function was originally not present in 11. x and was re-introdu...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Framework Manager: Option to allow "true FULL OUTER JOIN SQL generation" using conformed dimensions

Framework Manager: Provide an option to allow true FULL OUTER JOIN SQL generation using conformed dimensions In other words: provide a way to suppress the use of stitch columns in well defined models.PMR: TS001052591
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global parameters with group permission

In Cognos Analytics the concept of global parameters was introduced. in the Administration section you can set permissions on paramters based on user roles. If a user has more roles you need to set the priority. It would be helpful if the permissi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration