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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:


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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,

  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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Local client being compatible for different product versions

The Controller 11 client that is currently downloaded From Controller Web to a user's machine is only compatible to a single product version. For customers with separate production and development environments this will cause a restriction, say de...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Increase the data point limit to allow for more than 32767 data points (INT16_MAX)

Some applications have large amounts of data points, and to display, for example, a year of data, requires more datapoints to be possible. It would be desirable for a higher limit to be available.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Add and support JDBC / DQM functionality for Progress clients

Support for Progress OpenEdge JDBC connections for IBM Cognos Analytics to report critical information. With CA 11.0.2 Progress no longer supports Progress OpenEdge ODBC with no JDBC support for DQM dashboarding/story telling functionality for Pro...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When using WHERE clause in Filter stage, user should set fields/columns manually but any assist functions such as recommended fields/columns listed automatically implemented.

In current ETL design, user should set fields/columns input manually when they want to set WHERE clause in Filter stage. One of our customer requests to function enhancement so that users can select listed fields/columns that CP4D tool listed. By ...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Change Services Name to MarketPlace and Location to under Resources

The little button that if you put your cursor onver it says Services is not prominent enough on the real estate. It needs to be moved most likely to Resources top of list - and call it MarketPlace - We continue have move and more partner add ones ...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

CDC support for replication to Azure SQL Data Warehouse

We use IBM Data Replication (CDC) to replicate data to SQL Server. We would like to move our data to Azure SQL Data Warehouse but CDC for SQL Server fails to configure an instance against Azure SQL Data Warehouse. CDC should support replicating da...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Select Own Custom Designed Mapbox Layers

Mapbox Studio allows you to design custom maps, including using your own data. You should be able to use your own Mapbox basemaps, instead of only the 10 or so basemaps provided by Cognos.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Include 'Description' in white space of object box

White space in object box should contain description of report or object. Currently it is wasted white space.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Migration warning needs to provide specific details about issues

The "Button Widget Warning" that appears when migrating PAW books from one environment to another is lacking in that it does not provide any details on which object from which book is causing the issue at the very minimum. Without the additional d...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Query Service and Content Administration Task Status Notifications

As an administrator, I would like the ability to be notified via e-mail of the completion status for scheduled query service and content administration tasks. Scenario #1: Dynamic Cubes member/data cache refreshes are performed by a scheduled quer...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration