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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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AWS Redshift support On Cloud environment

AWS Redshift is one of the top Data Warehousing options in the market, adding the capability to connect to it in a On Cloud environment would benefit lots of users, as well as making the free trial of Cognos fit enough to create a proof of concept.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Amazon Redshift data source

Connection is using the latest jdbc driver RedshiftJDBC42-no-awssdk-1.2.36.1060Client We are looking for support of data type boolean. Importing into FM brings data type in as Int16 and results in error when testing database query subject: 'XQ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

NoSQL databases support

There are many tools now that use a NoSQL database. In order to integrate with Cognos Analytics the data would need to be migrated to a supported relational database which is time consuming. It would be good if Cognos Analytics was able to genera...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

User should be able to add customized tiles on the welcome page

CFIA has been using Cognos since 2008 and the users start liking Congos 11.1.x especially Cognos 11.1.4. The welcome page is modern and seems easily to be able to customized. But in fact the users won't be able to add the tiles that they need. If ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Simplify fixes and enhancements to be installed and onfigured as a patch or fix pack, not as the entire version

In the last two upgrades it has been very time consuming and frustrating to apply the product and then test and then if issue install and configure the next in all instances being a distributed env. We have a total of 45 most of them in the webser...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Options missing for Query, Report Page and Prompt Page

Run Page , and Manage Report/Prompt Pages and Manage Classes for Report Pages and Prompt Pages are not available if you right click on the Individual Report Pages and Prompt Pages.And If you right click on the individual Query, we are unable to se...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Exploration support for calculations in Starting Points

Currently, Explore cannot support calculations in Starting Points. This would be very useful as a lot of the benefit from Data Modules comes from the ability to easily merge data sources together and create calculations from the resulting table. I...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Visualization x-axis label from horizontal to vertical

How can we flip the visualization x-axis label from horizontal to vertical in Reports? Note: we are aware that the feature is available in dashboards - Item axis label orientation but we cant find it in Reports.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Layout woes related to resize and legends

See my video that shows this issue at https://youtu.be/oaDDp73vMsc When creating Dashboards ...Chart legends tend to prefer adding white space over showing the full legend text. I have to resize the chart to be too large just to show the full lege...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

smaller / sizable font in the portal

A smaller font in the portal would make it easier to get an overview while navigating
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered