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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).


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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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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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Add ability to use custom Oracle functions in Data Module

Framework Manager has the ability to import custom Oracle functions to the model. These functions can then be used as filters or as columns in reports to either limit the data returned or to return additional information as a column when the repor...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

SQL Generated by Data Module - Pull only those fields used in a query, similar to how packages work.

When creating reports against a data module, the SQL generated pulls all the fields from the table(s) used in the query. This is not ideal, as it is inefficient, and there are certain data types, such as bits, that cause issues in data modules. It...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Uniquely timestamp .zip backups of Content Store database

I would like to suggest adding the ability to uniquely name or timestamp the .zip backups of the Content Store database, so that they don't get overwritten every time a new backup is created. Right now it appears that when you set up a schedule fo...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Auto scale of Report Output on all supported devices (responsive design in C11)

Create reports should be optimally displayed on each supported end device so that the user does not have to scroll on the end device.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Password Protected for Excel or CSV Schedules

We have the requirement that the excel or CSV report output should password protection
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Use AI to provide a summary of text fields

databases provide limited capability for aggregating text - Min / Max / Count is about it. But AI is demonstrating how it can provide a summary from a lot of text input. We could use AI to provide a text summary. For example, we could have a produ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Show recently used packages when creating a new report in authoring

In Cognos 10 there were multiple ways to create a new report in Report Studio with pre-selected package. With Cognos 11 this has been changed in a negative manner. It is now more effort to initialize a new report in authoring. First you have to st...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Single Select Value Filter/Prompt Drop Down List in Dasboards

want to have a dashboard filter like we can do in reporting, where the user can select only one value in a drop down list prompt. This capability does not exist currently in Dashboards
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

JDBC and ODBC driver for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations

We see a lot of customers moving to D365 from AX2009 and AX2012, most of the customers have a datavarehouse between their Cognos solution, but nearly every customer also have the need for live ad-hoc reporting as well, when they have month closing...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide dashboard toolbar (or components of dashboard toolbar) for a dashboard or role.

When embedding dashboards into our 3rd party tool we would like the ability to disable or hide components of the dashboard toolbar to suit our needs and have a more seamless integration with our core product. In some circumstances we want to limit...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted