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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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  1. Post an idea

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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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Workspace Cognos Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 27, 2018

JSON Support as datasource

Some of our customers are using Datameer, PowerBI or Tableau for doing raw data exploration and using JSON as a datasource directly.
Cognos Analytics also should support JSON as a datasource both for self service and enterprise bi
  • Guest
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    Jul 21, 2021

    With the Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST connection that we made available in 11.1.7, you can treat JSON files like a relational database table and add them to data modules like other data sources. Make sure to check out the documentation below for more details, and feel free to contact us if you'd like to share your story of how you're using this feature.

    Support for REST API data server connections:

    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.1.0?topic=administration-support-rest-api-data-server-connections