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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


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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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Improve Calculated Column error messages

Error messages need to be more informative. This is especially true for a product that touts Augmented Intelligence. For example: I used Create Calculation and called the function but I passed a parameter that was not a date type (my bad) The mess...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

For reports run interactively, display the report location.

When you run multiple reports with the same name, there is no way from the Welcome drop down to determine each report location making it impossible to differentiate between them. See file Attachments for a screenshot or view this forum post:https:...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Removing or avoiding large xqe_FileBasedPersistedResultSet temp file when report cancellation was unsuccessful

When Cognos report cancel unsuccessful. The following error appeared in cogaudit log: XQE-CON-0007 XQE error encountered: The cancel request was unsuccessful. xqe_FileBasedPersistedResultSet_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.tmp file continue to grow. It had gro...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Connecting to multiple Snowflake databases inside same Snowflake warehouse

Currently when a Snowflake datasource connection is created, it is mandatory to provide 1 warehouse and 1 database detail. But we would like to connect to multiple databases within the warehouse, in this way we can avoid creating multiple connecti...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Multiple extensions on app bar based up on permission

If we assign multiple custom folders to one user role, currently the product will only one custom folder to appear and there is no way to tell which one will show.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable tenant users see activities related with public content

In admin console, view activities, currently tenant users will be able to see all activities related with public content even tenant users have only execute/traverse capability. The schedule/activities view should be filtered by tenant ID.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use JPG pictures from database in Report Studio Reports

We have to print pictures in Report Studio Reports. The only data source for the Image Control in Report Studio is a URL SOURCE. We have many JPEG pictures stored in a database and want use these pictures in Report Studio reports. Please add to th...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Access to saved versions in Schedules

Something that I find unfavorable at least is the ability to access stored versions of schedules based on jobs, or the ability to see which items have been executed or have caused an error.This applies both to my schedules and subsciptions and dir...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improved Customization Section

Within Cognos you have the ability to setup roles where you can customize what shows and what is hidden from a user. The problem is if a user is in multiple roles, any customizations that have been unchecked will enforce deny no matter what the ro...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

execute reports, data sets, and jobs using a webhook

The modern data stack involves various technologies for extraction, loading, and transformation of data. Achieving appropriate sequence across technologies can be a challenge but webhooks can resolve this issue to allow different platforms to comm...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration