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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,


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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,

  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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SOLR support as Cognos data source

Hi, we have a search platform that is based on the open source project Apache Solr. We want to expose data stored within the platform to Cognos so that subsets may be modeled and incorporated into analysis. I'm told this is not yet a consideration...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capability to read data sets and load in database tables - not available per IBM in Cognos 11.1.R5-R7

is it possible to read data sets and load in database tables, whether content store is on database or external storage? Purpose is to reuse Cognos Dataset elsewhere for analysis, so want to load data in table or for any other analytical tool.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need keyboard shortcut keys to skip links and move to main report content

Keyboard users are unable to skip the links (on top of report output) and move to the main content of Report Studio report. They have to tab through all the links to get to the main content.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restful Web Service

We are primary a Salesforce shop and update Salesforce from data compiled by our database. We'd like use a Cognos "servce" to return report data (in xml or json) made by a Salesforce call out to Cognos.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add support for Malayalam language in Cognos Analytics

Despite being offered as a locale - Malayalam-India(ml_IN) - there is no language support. Malayalum text in reports current causes PDF output to crash. There is no soft fail-over or mitigating action, instead the system crashes with a FNT-0000-...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Restrict "Create Calculation" for specific data Items in Framework Manager.

Idea is to restrict users to create calculatoin for specific data Items. we don't want to remove "Create Calculation" globally for all data items. (By unchecking create calculation from capabilities).
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select All/Multi- Bulk Selection for Job steps

In our new 11.1.7 CA environment, we are testing all of the different functions that we use to ensure everything is pretty much the same. While testing, we came across one functionality that is quite different. When going to the properties of a jo...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to import TenantID in OpenID namespace via CSV

The functionality to import the users in a OpenID namespace misses the ability to import the TenantID. Since we work with a multi tenant environment in combination with a authentication provider configured bases on de OpenID standard we have to im...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Reports Set with output of Excel 2007 are being changed to HTML, when importing Content Store from 10.x. to 11.x

When importing a Content Store from C10 to C11, any report set as Excel 2007, and being changed to HTML. This is requiring hundred of reports having to be modified manually to the new EXCEL option.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option for replacing/updating packages without breaking existing usages of the package when importing content.

There is need to update a package and a Dashboard (only these two objects in a big folder structure) in a PROD-Environment by moving, copying or migrating from a DEV-Environment. The updated package is used in many more Dashboards and Reports, but...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration