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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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Query items in package should be ordered alphabetically depending on the content language

In Frameworkmanager, the query items can be ordered alphabetically with two options (A-Z or Z-A, see screenshot #1).But when using more than one language in frameworkmanager and changing the language, the sortorder stays the same, only the query i...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Flag when a deployment has been processed in the dropbox and is ready for use

When a new deployment file is loaded to the CAoC SFTP dropbox there appears to be a delay while it is moved to the system for deployment. Our current automation waits 15 minutes after upload before triggering the deployment job on production. A fl...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Full Report List in Audit Database

There should be a section added to the audit database that holds information on all reports that reside in the Cognos Analytics instance. This information is already present when looking at the permissions of a report, but there is not a complete ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Framework Manager option to Kill database requested in case of failed

Our team use IBM Cognos Framework Manager product to design and publish packages use on Cognos Report Studio mainly but in some cases the queries created failed with error: "A socket reported a communication error".The previous error was identifie...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to display Notifications upon Logon to the system

If administrators need to inform users of planned outages / send short term warnings that the system needs to go into a maintenance cycle - then Cognos currently does not offer any options to do so.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Do not break shortcuts when renaming a folder name

The objects are indexed using their search paths, so if the search path breaks when a folder or object in the path changes, then the shortcut link will break.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add option to expand the area of MANAGE tab in navigation bar

Add option to expand the area of MANAGE tab in navigation bar the same way as when navigating though folders. The names of cognos roles and groups do not appear as soon as they are long, instead we see dots.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM provides Cognos Analytics official support for AWS RDS with Content Store

The client is migrating the existing environment to cloud (AWS). However, for Cognos Analytics, the Content Store with AWS RDS connection is not officially supported by IBM. Is there any roadmap for supporting cloud database in the future?
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Search Schedule by Name in Cognos Administration Portal

Currently I have option to filter schedules but if I need to search a schedule by its name, I have to visit each page and look at it and its time consuming as well as there are chances or error and I might overlook it. I have faced this problem nu...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

See more data about uploaded file

In the properties of an uploaded file, I can see the size of the file, but I would like to see how many ROWS in the uploaded file. If possible, I would also like to see the number of COLUMNS, or anything else gathered on data input :)
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration