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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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Ability to set the range filter to the string data type column in Cognos Workspace Advanced

The data type has been set to either nChar or nvarChar for the alpha-numeric columns such as date(yyyymmdd), membership number, and partner code. The database is Teradata. They would like to use the range filter to the string column that is provid...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Azure BLOB storage cloud connection to save report output

In Cognos 11.1.5 are Cloud Object Storage providers introduced. With this solution is it possible to save report output to an external Cloud Object Storage provider like IBM, Google and Amazon. Azure, one of the biggest cloud service providers, is...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Visualisation object source

Possibility to add a source to visualisation object as it is for chart objects.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Cognos BI DQM properties for Amazon Redshift Database Processing

Cognos BI XQE properties for Amazon RedShift currently does not support many new database functions, including MEDIAN, PERCENTILE_CONT, PERCENTILE_DISC etc. as per Amazon RedShift 2014 release notes. a. PERCENTILE_CONT b. PERCENTILE_DISC c. REGEXP...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable customization of authoring perspective

The new black and white design in Authoring (Report Studio) has caused massive annoyance at some of our customers. The reasons given were: generally confusing color is missing in the icons windows (e.g. expression editor) are not clearly delimited...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Rest API for security group

Hello, We need an entegration with our security team. We did it before other BI tools with their rest api. But in Cognos we cannot use security group with members. Our security team don't want to use SDK because of our microservice standarts. You ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add a snapshot of a report output to an existing email or Slack message stream

Provide an option that would take a snapshot of a report output (with markups) and copy it to the clipboard. This would facilitate augmenting an existing message exchange with additional report snapshots as opposed to requiring a new share reque...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

List interactivity: Clicking on a row in a list should highlight a country in a Map

List interactivity: Clicking on a row in a list should highlight a country in a Map
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make New Job... toggleable between Manage and Public

Make the position of "New Job... " toggleable between Pre-R10 and Post-R10 location.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Print to multiple printers in one schedule

Need the ability to print to multiple printers in one schedule. I can work-around this by creating a report view but that is a lot of extra work when you just want to print to two printers. thank you.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration