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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).


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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:


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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,


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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,

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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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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: 'XQE-DA...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Chart Axis Range not honored

System: IBM Cognos 11.0.x or 10.2.xActor: Report developerDescription: Report developers want to produce charts that show sufficient detail for the smaller values in a report without regard for known anomalies that lie outside some reasonable rang...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Enable Analysis Studio in Cogno Analytics on the Cloud

We have a customer migrating to Cloud via the Bridge to Cloud program. They are currently leveraging a decent number of PowerCubes, on premises, utilizing Analysis Studio. Currently Cognos Analytics on Cloud doesn't enable Analysis Studio, relegat...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Update (or better yet remove) the NSS libraries for Windows

I'm creating this "idea" because I had opened a support case with a company called Deltek concerning one of their products that uses Cognos Analytics. Cognos does not properly report its capability to use higher strength TLS ciphers and signature ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 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 generat...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

by default email options set to "Include a link to the report" to avoid hugh attachments clogging up the system

update default option in "advanced options" when report is selected to be mailed to "Include a link to the report" instead of "Attach the report"; This is meant to avoid that endusers accidentally forget to untick the default "Attach the report"; ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 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 ...
about 5 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...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Allow Scheduling on landing page for Recents

On the landing page there is the option to select properties and navigate to the scheduling tab but when you try to enter the scheduling information the focus goes off the page and there is no way to get to the scheduling options.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

More options to modify axes in a dashboard

The new dashboarding function in Cognos Analytics has limited customization for charts. In particular, it would be useful to be able to: 1. Hide the axis title for each axis individually2. Change the color of the axes, axis titles, and labels
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered