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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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Support for Azure SQLDB instance

JNetDirect driver is fairly old in Cognos BI, so it would very nice to have does updated to support using Microsoft Azure SQL DB instances as contentstore.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Bring back "Insert" and "Collapse all" option to menu on data items

In previous versions of CA (eg. 11.0.6) we had "Insert" and "Collapse all" options when right clicking a data item in the "Query"-view. In newer releases we only have "Display data items based on selection". Would be nice to have these options bac...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Internal IP disclosure in SOAP response

We have noticed that internal IP are being displayed in the SOAP response from the server. This has been identified as a security issue. More information can be found via case TS002431041.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

breadcrumb trail in Report Studio

Previous versions of the BI product allowed for bread crumb trails to be created within the report to showcase the drill path that you were currently on. The technote here: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21470373shows a way to ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Folder structure within Cognos Mobile App

The ability to create a folder structure within the Cognos Mobile App so that the entry screen to downloaded reports is not cluttered and can be organised into groupings
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add function to translate TM1/PA or Excel serial date numbers to datetime values

Currently, there is no built-in function within Cognos Analytics that allows for converting Excel or TM1 serial date numbers to their respective datetime values.We can partially emulate it if we're just using dates by using the _add_days function ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Offer a 64-bit connector to IBM Optim inside Cognos Analytics

We need a data source connector in Cognos Analytics (11.x) that can connect to IBM InfoSphere Optim Archives in 64-bit mode. We are running Cognos 11 in 64-bit only mode, and there is no connector for Optim that works there, only a 32-bit ODBC. Th...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update "Recent Cards" on homepage to browse by pathing rather than object ID.

A report is created for a large number of users to consume all through-out the day named Report Alpha. Developers later update Report Alpha without versioning the name of the report so that all email links and links within other user interfaces st...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

AI Assistant Languages

In Cognos Exploration currently only english language is supported, other languages including German, French and Dutch are also needed by our clients
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Display breadcrumb trail on Dashboard Navigation Paths

When using Navigation Paths in a visualization on the Dashboard, users have to remember the path they drilled down and around. There are no indications on the visualization.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration