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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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Provide method to change the default namespace search to Starts with the exact string

Please provide a method to set the namespace search in the Administration tab. Currently the default is "Contains the exact string". This can be an issue when users search a large LDAP. To prevent unnecessary long queries against the LDAP please e...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add options to Run and Save after selecting "Try It" when editing a Data Module

When editing a Data Module, after selecting "Try It", there is no option for Run options, View, Run, or Save. As it is now, you have to save the Data Module, then from the Welcome screen, select Edit Report from the action menu.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable Property "Maximum execution time" for DQM in Reporting and Framework Manager Governors

The feature is for Cognos Analytics on Cloud and Prem. Property "Maximum execution time" in Cognos Reporting and Framework Manager Governors works in CQM mode. It does not work in DQM mode, This property need be tuned to work in DQM mode. Additi...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Hijri calendar support to IBM Cognos Analytics

Enable Hijri ( Um Al Qura ) calendar support in Cognos Analytics: User profile preferences "Calendar type" (like Gregorian and Japanese Imperial) in each of the following: Reporting and Dashboards, the Data format dialog, when formatting as date o...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Ability to connection to Google Analytics and Bing Analytics

Can we have ability to connect Google Analytics or Bing Analytics with Cognos, to report numbers and amounts.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Job name not available from set properties of job

In cognos 11.0.10 Environments users are not able to see the job name from set properties. In legacy view user was able to see the job name from job properties.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ADD IMS AS POSSIBLE DATASOURCE IN COGNOS ANALYTICS

The IMS data source has been removed from Cognos Analytics since version 11.0.6This database is however an IBM product while the IDMS database (Computer Associates and now Broadcom) is still available in 11.1.5 for example. We have the need in our...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

dcadmin.bat unsecured credentials

Cognos BI has a command-line utility called dcadmin.bat which is used for Dynamic Cube administration tasks such as stopping and starting cubes. Normally this utility will be used as part of a Windows Batch file. The utility requires the administr...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

No pre-emptive query on COUNT DISTINCT/non-additive measures

When the user builds a query against a Dynamic Cube that involves more than 1 measure then the Query Service tends to generate a database query including every measure. This is a good thing for simple SUM aggregated measures but for COUNT DISTINCT...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Control what to show in on-demand toolbar in Report Studio

Currently the on-demand tool bar in the interactive viewer or the preview mode of the report studio has a good number of options. Most times the users may not need all the options. The favorite options however are sort, filters and aggregate only....
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration