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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:


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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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Support for CLOB data typs

Support for CLOB data type, for the substring and position functions. Currently you can only use the functions to string fields, and converting a CLOB to a string will not work if the CLOB is over 4000 characters. The Vendor specific functions, su...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide SDK interface to automate theme and extension maintenance. (CA11)

Provide a programmable interface (SDK) to partially deploy themes and extensions to environments as well as create the needed settings to roles and rights.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support JSON-Functions

More and more architecture decisions turning into service oriented architectures. In this case data is not available in relational tables anymore but eg. JSON files. In data modules JSON functions can be implemented to show report authors data in ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Cognos LDAP provider as namespace then it does not handle referrals

PMR Ticket TS001123363 Unable to authenticate LDAP user across multiple domain. From cognos content manager. Version 10.1x
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disallow ability to run report in background

There is currently no way to explicitly deny a role the ability to run a report in the background. We need roles to have the ability to run as excel, pdf, html but NOT in the background. Currently we can only restrict their ability to 'run as' alt...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

RHEL SELinux Support required for Cognos Analytics

At this time SELinux is not a supported configuration for Cognos Analytics. Our internal default policy has changed with Redhat 7 and by default SELinux is activated. We would need Cognos Analytics to follow the default policies from Redhat 7 SELi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Request a 'friendly' error message when trying to overwrite a published report with the Save function.

What options are available to offer users a friendly error message when they attempt to overwrite a report with the "Save" function. As an example, when a user attempts to "Save As" to a restricted folder, the get a clean/understandable error mess...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pass database hints through cognos

Many databases provides hints to improve the performance of the queries. In recent observation, we saw that when cognos report is running it takes 10-15 mins where as when we run same query at database side (Vertica) with hints it gives output in ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Subscribe to report - allow users to select monthly, not just day/daily/week

Subscribing is a simple way to setup repeat report output, but Repeat On only has MTWTFSS options. Can it allow similar options like scheduling does? Scheduling is restricted since it's more complicated. Subscribing is perfect for the avg user. Th...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Deploy - Export/Import Datasources

Deploy - when we check deploy datasources, cognos deploys all the datasources in the environment.1. Like other areas in Cognos - we should be able to create DS in groups, inside a nice folder and deploy then in groups or individually - with creden...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration