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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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Set Encrypt=false when using MS SQL Database

Since MS JDBC Driver 10.2, the default behaviour for the JDBC driver is to set encrypt=true; this causes issues with Cognos Configuration as the error messages when using the JDBC driver suggests that when the setting is SSL Encryption Enabled is ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Delivered

Readd the ability to hide an email attachment which is available in Cognos Business Analytics V 10.2.2

In Cognos Business Analytics Version 10.2.2 has the ability to hide the Attach the report checkbox in the set the emails options GUI. In C11 this ability has been removed. Please see the following IBM link which shows how to hide the “Attach the r...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 12 Delivered

Generate SQL for queries defined based on a Data Module

Add the ability to display the SQL generated by a query when the query is created from a Data Module.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

List and Crosstab Visualization Lagging Behind Power BI and Tableau

A lot have been spoken about Charts and other candy like visualization BUT one part that is missing in Cognos Analytic Dashboard is a flexible, adjustable and better looking LISTS and CROSSTABSI've heard that LISTS and CROSSTABS aren't that useful...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Authentication Methods

Provide for authentication to Azure Snowflake databases via authentication by OAuth token, or authentication by AAD with external browser, or authentication using SSHK-keypair.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Delivered

Ability to specify order in Cognos Analytics graphs (e.g. Geo, Unit)

We would like the ability to specify order in graphs in Cognos Analytics dashboards. The sort function is there but we have a specifc order for many data elements that we use to help manage the business.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Add Location of object into startpage Recent overview

We would like to see that the location of an object that is shown in the Recent list on the Cognos Welcome page, is added into the Recent list in such a way that it is not needed to open the properties of this object first and clicking the Advance...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Client-Side Logging should be configurable so that an Administrator can enable/disble for Groups, Roles or Individual users

Client-Side Logging should be configurable so that an Administrator can enable/disble for Groups, Roles or Individual users
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Ability to connect to Azure Analysis Services (tabular model cubes)

We need to be able to connect to our Azure Analysis Services cubes ("tabular models"), otherwise the only option for the use case will be Power BI.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Tile View Display

We have a request that we believe would be beneficial for everyone. We would like the option of fixing the truncated text on the recent reports ran within the Tile View Display. I have attached an image of what I am talking about.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered