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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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Cognos Analytics

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In My schedules and subscriptions, under Past, give the user more information to troubleshoot a failure

In My schedules and subscriptions, under the Past view, for failures the only information provided to the user is the:-entry name-request time-status (Testing failed or Failed in R8 and R9 respectively) This is not enough information for an end us...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing Analysis Studio Functionality

There are missing Analysis Studio functionality that is missing in Report Authoring. If IBM is expecting normal business users to use Report Authoring as a suitable replacement for Analysis Studio, then IBM needs to make all the functionality avai...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Renewing credentials

'Automatically renew trusted credential' in Cognos Analytics 11 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21998776 In SSO it is impossible to automatically renew trusted credential
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to download the default welcome page / logon page for modification

Customer doesn't want to develop own welcome page and logon page as well as modify any samples. The request is to be able to download the default one, modify and upload. Either replace the existing one or upload a new name.We know https://www.ibm....
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

SAP BW Dataconnection out of Support on 31.12.2018

A data connection to an SAP BW system is to be set up.The client SAP NetWeaver RFC library 7.20 recommended by IBM is no longer supported by SAP as of 31.12.2018. SAP refers to "SAP NetWeaver RFC Library 7.50" as the successor.This driver cannot b...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to enforce an end date for a scheduled report or job.

This will allow Administrators to better manage schedules and not have users create schedules that could be in the system for an extended period.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Enable OKTA for Databricks connection

Currently we are using a particular user token in the databricks connection for authentication. If the connection enables OKTA capability like other reporting tools then it will be more secure and also we need not rotate the connection token every...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Under review

Add option for generic/custom JDBC driver

Access to production systems is done via custom JDBC driver, that uses itself the JDBC drivers from DB2 LUW and Oracle. We need to use this custom JDBC driver to access productive data from our Cognos development systems, for example in a complex ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for custom lines and points on Mapbox maps

Would love to see non-polygon objects like railway tracks, roads, shipping routes on a map and then control the colour and thickness with intensity of use (or something else). Mapbox Studio supports custom point, line and polygon objects. While su...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Routing Rule Capability for Cognos Data Sets

Add the ability to assign a routing rule to data sets, like we can with FM packages.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration