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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


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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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Make Data Source Connection description visible when choosing a data source.

When creating a Data Source Connection (DSC) there is a UI to enter a description, this description does not show up in the DSC selection screen.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Microsoft SQL Server Migration

As part of our migration strategy to update all applications currently running with Microsoft SQL Server 2016 to Microsoft SQL Server 2019 (Cognos Command Center and Cognos Integration Server) , we ask for support in problem solving during the mig...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Add (designer specifiable?) "Apply" and "Cancel" buttons to slider filter

Slider filters refresh the data as soon as a value is "selected".Usually one needs at least 2 values (lower and higher) before the desired result is obtained, and sometimes even more right / left slides, until the desired resolution is obtained.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Non informative error message for conditional formatting

If I set up conditional formatting for List in Report Studio and then change underlying Query Subject for this List I'll get scary error "RSV-SRV-0040 The report server encountered an internal error.": http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide Summary option on a by-Summary basis

In Dashboards and Stories, there is currently no way to control which Summaries in Tables and Crosstabs are displayed or hidden. Currently, the option is to either display all or hide all even though all of the summaries generated may not be relev...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Automatically Renew Credentials with Azure

We're on Azure and our users don't like having to renew their credentials every time they change their password. Is there no way to automate this securely? If their credentials aren't current, their scheduled jobs and reports won't run when they'r...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Ability for status views auto-refresh in IBM Cognos Administration

An automatic refresh interval should be configurable to specify the refresh interval of the status pages in IBM Cognos Administration. This applies for Current Activities, Upcoming Activities, Past Activities and Schedules.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow schedule of specific days of months

Sometimes a report needs to run on specific days of each month that are not necessarily daily, weekly etc. It would be handy to have the ability to select specific days (such as the 18-22 or the 18th, 20th and 25th).
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide updated and more detailed documentation of Cognos BI Audit Log tables and columns

Our client has a specific need to track what end users are receiving emailed report results generated out of Cognos. One way to identify these individuals appears to be by querying the email lists that are logged in the Audit Log database “AGENT...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pick created Dashboard visualizations in read-only mode

Dashboard is created with viz and the author also includes other viz not shown on the canvas. This dashboard is published to user base. User base (non-edit mode) can then remove. resize viz and a select the other viz associated with the dashboard....
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration