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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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Watch new versions - not available

The capability "Watch new versions" for saved outputs is not available (as it was in C10). The new C11 function "Subscribe" is not an adequate replacement, because the user should not create an own schedule.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove IIS Rewrites from Configuration

Please remove IIS rewrite rules as part of the installation.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More visibility into where reports are running

I would like to request more visibility in the "running tasks" and "past activity" areas that shows a column for which dispatcher the job is running on. Also, it would be helpful for tracking issues if when there was a failure, it showed you what ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support try_cast Trino function in Cognos

There is an interesting function called "try_cast" for Trino but it doesn't work in Cognos. It leads to a syntax error when executing the report. Our customers often get conversion errors when using "cast" function, for example from varchar to dec...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Prompt choice of Data Sets

In Cognos Analytics we can create a Data Source and in that Data Source define multiple connections. Then if a report is developed using that Data Source, at report runtime we will be prompted to choose which connection to use. Similar functionali...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Open option to change the home perspective for folder URL (share option).

We would like to have option to change the perspective for folder URL under the option 'share' for folders. Now it is not possible to change it and popup the folder under different perspective.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Certification for WebSeal (ISAM)

Cognos Analyticss 11 certification for WebSeal.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

allow multiple return urls in OIDC namespace

Since current cognos OIDC namespace only allows 1 Return URL, we can only access cognos using the domain name specified in return URL, which is normally gateway URL. If we need to access cognos via Dispatcher URL, we need to create additional name...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Add Folder to Query Explorer Toolbox in Report Studio

Add Folder to Query Explorer Toolbox so it can be dragged into the Query window in order to organize/group queries
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability for Life Cycle Manager to save results to a file

Ability for Life Cycle Manager to save results to a file
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration