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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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Add Conformance for current Microsoft OLE DB Driver

Due to the fact that Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server (SQLOLEDB) and SQL Server Native Client OLE DB provider (SQLNCLI) are deprecated - active support for the current OLEDB driver would need to be added. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/s...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Printing Uses User Credentials & Not Service Account

All printing requests to printers are sent using the account that the Cognos service is started against. This causes an issue for users who collect their printed output by providing a PIN. Their PIN relates to their own account and not the service...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select all the values in a Value Prompt by mouse right click and dragging the cursor

Users do multi-select in value prompt and 10.2.1 used to allow mouse right click and then just drag to multi select records. We will like to have same behavior in 11.1.X with value prompt in reporting.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Exapnd the capabilities of the "Data PLayer" Viz widget to allow for a an ALL or off capability.

A user with a dashboard hat has a step through capability offered through the data player, may have a need to view the dashboard content without the filtering/step effect of the Data Viz widget. Currently this cannot be done (CA 11.1).This may NOT...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Necessary possibility to track the different type of licenses - Cognos Analitics or Planning Analytics

It is good to have the ability to track the different type of licenses via Cognos Portal. Now form Manage->licenses we can see how many licenses are occupied and by hum, but we don’t know how many licenses are used for Cognos Analitics and how ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Put quick references to help menu

The quick references area takes up space, but it is present on the home screen and is not perinating. Even if the proxi company allows access to youtube, once we have done the tour we come back more. And the presence of this zonne annoys - my cust...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Recognition of lower level regions in maps

Maps should have the ability to resolve lower level regions. such as boroughs, townships, etc. For example, Canadian regions such as Kanata, Nepean, etc. which can be mapped as points and not shapes.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Assign value to a Parameter from a Report Studio Query

In a Report Studio, have the ability to assign a value to a parameter, where the value is calculated in a query.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

List interactivity, and chart filtering and highlighting segment.

List interactivity: Clicking on a row in a list should highlight a segment in a chart
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Break sets

The new report tool allows you to define when pulling over dimensions if they are to be individual members or a set. We would think that we should be able to make a change by clicking an option to break the set, rather than having to remove the se...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration