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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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Change Source and Target Servers

We are unable to change the source or target server on a LifeCycle Manager project. This would be very helpful because we use one server for normal report development and another server for upgrade testing and this would allow us to use the same r...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable advanced routing based on Studio application

Advanced routing in IBM administration console allows only based on package, role and group routing sets. It will be beneficial to add enhancement to route based on studio application where report has been built.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos BI compatibility with Oracle 12c Multitenant functionality

we are on cognos BI 10.2.1 FP4 , DBA team is working to upgrade Oracle platform and move all the databases from 11g to Oracle 12c. we want to use service name in JDBC connection string but it 's not allowing to use service name , it looks like it ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos to Infosphere Data Lineage - Pre-set our own default filter, flow relationships btw assets, and hide properties window

Our organization uses Cognos Reports and Infosphere for ETL and lineage. Our over 2000 business users need to know where their data is coming from, they don't care about the details of how it got there, jobs, views etc.. They only care to know the...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

LDAP Object Filter in Cognos Connection / Administration

We have a very flat LDAP structure, with 500.000 Users in one OU. Everytime I want to add/ remove users in Cognos Connections / Administration, all 500.000 Users were parsed which leads to timeouts or extremly long waiting periods. We need the pos...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Integrate the configuration of Cognos BI with the UI

The configuration of the Cognos BI should be integrated in the Cognos Connection Administrative area. The process of configuring and optimizing the environment is outdated, manual and prone to error.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Powerplay Client Explain feature in Workspace Advance

Workspace Advanced does not have similar functionality to that which was available in Powerplay Client Explain feature.The Explain feature is very helpful for business users to know the Drill down path of a member.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio Filter panes: Show more filter if space allows

In report studio when editing a query, the Filters panes on the right side truncate the contents of the filters, even though there is room to show more
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sybase ASE JDBC Driver

Cognos 10.2.2 does not support the Sybase ASE in DQM mode. Please configure Cognos to support a Sybase JDBC driver. Our current Version of Sybase ASE is 15.7
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide greater navigation in report studio

In version 10 we could right click on a list object and navigate to the query behind. Now we have to user a few more clicks to get to this in a no so direct way.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration