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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.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 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 ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Getdate not supported in Cognos Analytics

Other SQL functions can be used in Cognos Analytics but getdate() is not supported.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

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
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Possible to delete datamodul cache

When developing and debugging reports we need to know that we going against the database and not against cache. There should be an option to delete cache for a datamodul. Today I need to restart dispatcher or change datamodul to be able to delete ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add Legacy tools directly under New

Currently, Query Studio is under other applications, after selecting New, within the portal. An extension should be available to modify the "New" selections so that the legacy tools don't need to have the extra click to go through "other applicati...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Not under consideration

Report Studio Support Package in CA 11

Report Studio using a specified package in url.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export Framework Manager Model

End users should be able to get a diagram of the FM model to understand the table relations. Currently, you can only print the model (seen in content explorer), which breaks up the model into many pages. Should have the ability to export the whole...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Post-Aggregation to Active Reports

Need to be able to add Post-Aggregation to Active Reports to properly calculate so a viable offline solution can be provided that is in line with Standard Reports. Right now without the ability to do post-aggregation the % value on the viz chart i...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to query Content Store to find schedules for particular email recipient

Cognos should have ability to query content store database, to retrieve details like - How many schedules have a particular email id as recipient. It may be possible via audit, but only when the schedules are running.- How many schedules are creat...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration