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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 MS SQL Server 2019 as Content Store database

Ultimate Software (US) is planning migration to SQL Server 2019 as the standard RDBMS version for all applications using MS SQL Server. Supported conformance for SQL Server 2019 as a Content Store will allow US make the move for all platforms sinc...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Display Text in Crosstab Fact Cell

Currently the Crosstab only supports numerical data which will be summarized for display by dimensions, but in current scenario where there is a lot textual data which needs to be pivoted there needs a way to show them as categories in crosstab
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Cognos should be embeddable in applications using Standards Mode

Should not mandate Quirks Mode and Compatibility View. For example some of the IE9 Standards Mode issues we currently are facing:->While running the report in XML format, the report output is showing as text format in viewer page ->Report St...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Add exploration mode for OLAP sources

Hello, we would like to leverage the new exploration otpions but they are desined today only for relational sources.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Reorder Tabs on Dashboard

Users would like the ability to re-order tabs on the dashboard. A new tab can be added to the dashboard but it is added at the end of the existing tabs and cannot be moved.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Hide legend titles

We want to hide the titles in legends, we don't want the legend titles to show
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Workspace Advanced - Pass Context Filters as Drill parameters

Context filters from Workspace Advanced are not being passed as drill-through parameters. This is known behaviour, tech note from Dec 2014:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21511919 Desired behaviour: Context filters are passed as d...
almost 9 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

API functionality for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

I've been told by our IBM rep that for Cognos on Cloud there is no direct connection through a Java API. It would have to be uploaded as an xls. file into Cognos on Cloud. This request is to make that API functionality available on Cognos Analytic...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Crosstab Option to display "0" (ZERO) instead of "No Value" when the cell does not have value

The default behavior of Crosstab is to display "(no value)" for the cells without value. It would be nice to have option to display "0" ZERO instead.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered