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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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Prompt User for Credentials if Database Login Fails

We report off of an Oracle database using database credentials that expire after 30 days. When you run a report, you get prompted for a user name and password along with a checkbox that says “Remember my user ID and password when connecting to t...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make PDF documentation available that describes the Cognos extended SQL functions

It is common practice by Cognos report authors and administrators to use the "Generate SQL" feature to view the SQL that executed during a report run. This may be done either for performance improvement or troubleshooting reasons. When the SQL con...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Row version of math functions

Math functions in Cognos works on individual field in a column fashion. I need to use math function on a row instead. The particular functions that I'm using are aggregate and maximum but all math functions could be used in this manner. Especially...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Formatting capabilities for Calculated Time Members

I have created couple of new Calculated members in the time dimension called MTD%Inc and YTD%Inc which calculated the percentage increase in Sales over current year and last year. Which is a percentage value. I would like to change the data format...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Job or schedule xml editing or visibility.

My colleagues and I suggest making available in Cognos Administration the ability to edit or at least view Job or Schedule XML.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

display ordinance-designated city in Japan with map visualization

In the "map" visualization,We are currently unable to display the "designated cities" (Seirei sitei toshi) in Japan."Ordinance-designated cities" are the 20 major cities in Japan, and include major cities such as Yokohama and Sapporo.Many Japanese...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need better axis label formatting control

Report authors are unable to control the border around the axis labels.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DQA AGG Advisor: Display Picked Options in Advisor Results

In DQA Aggregate Advisor, display selected options in the Advisor Results.After I run the advisor and look at the results, I don't know what was picked as an option.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve the representation in Cognos portal

(1) For the burst versions, total count of burst versions is not displayed which makes it very difficult to understand appropriate how many report versions have been busted. As we have 9 reports that are busted on daily basis and each report burst...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automated log removal within Cognos install directory

Client would like a way to remove older logs automatically from the Cognos install. Ideally they would like to be able to set the maximum size and number of logs like as can be done with the cogserver.log with all other logs such as pogo localhost...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration