Skip to Main Content
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


ADD A NEW IDEA

Cognos Analytics

Showing 3686 of 15558

I am requesting a change to the RunProcess function that would allow it to convert a string to numeric just as the current ExecuteCommand function operates.

It has come to my attention that the ExecuteCommand function will eventually be discontinued and that the RunProcess function should be used instead. We are currently using the ExecuteCommand function in a generic process that is used to kick off ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Ability to refresh Schedules/Subscriptions status page

Customer in distribution market has requested multiple times for ability to refresh the status of current schedules/subscriptions/reports in the My Schedules and Subscriptions pages. This would be a refresh on the status of a task and not refreshi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to configure Search to return exact matches

Add the option to turn off natural language searching from Search. This should work similar to a "contains" search. Currently it can be very difficult to get to exactly what you want as objects that are similar to the search criteria are displayed.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to edit Tooltips more easily (Dashboards and Reports)

Would like the ability to more easily edit tooltips in reporting and dashboarding. Currently you can add HTML items and javascript to add more to tooltips, however it would be nice if this was an out of the box feature.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Cognos Audit Content

Enhance the delivered Audit content to better handle common audit situations. #1 - make counting unique report runs easierFor example: COGIPF_RUNREPORT has multiple rows in it for each report run, if the report has prompt pages. So: add something ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to use custom Oracle functions in Data Module

Framework Manager has the ability to import custom Oracle functions to the model. These functions can then be used as filters or as columns in reports to either limit the data returned or to return additional information as a column when the repor...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Name of relative times in the Query using dynamic cubes

When using the relative times from a dynamic cube, the name of the period doesn't change in the query. The report show the right period when running the report, but it shows the period from the time of the report building date.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Mapping Enhancements

We need some enhancements to the mapping functionality of Cognos. Tools such as PowerBI have plugins to Esri that allows many GIS functionality to be done in the dashboards.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

SQL Generated by Data Module - Pull only those fields used in a query, similar to how packages work.

When creating reports against a data module, the SQL generated pulls all the fields from the table(s) used in the query. This is not ideal, as it is inefficient, and there are certain data types, such as bits, that cause issues in data modules. It...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to "view lineage" on data sources when creating queries in a data set (mimic existing ability from query building in reporting )

similar to building a report, it is helpful to check lineage on field sources when building datasets. In reporting , once a source is added user may right click on any field name, select lineage, change radio button to detail and view the complete...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration