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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,


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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


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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Support for Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse and SQL Database

Provide official support for the following Microsoft Azure solutions. 1. Azure SQL Datwarehouse as a DQM data sourcehttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-data-warehouse/ 2. Azure SQL Database as a content store database.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Rollup functions in Visualizations & Active Reports

The current visualization engine limits rollup methods for chart measures to Total, Minimum, Maximum and Average. This is great for multiple filter options on additive measures; but really does not support calculated measures (i.e. Margin %, Cost ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide or disable built-in change and growth relative time members in Dynamic Cubes

Cube modeler can't affect to the behavior of built-in relative time members in Dynamic Cubes (Year to Date Change, Year to Date % Growth, QTD Change, QTD % Growth, MTD Change, etc.). Because those calculations are fixed they won't always show the ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

dynamic naming of report output

I need an option to send a scheduled report via email and the name of the attached report should contain a dynamically changing date string. E.g.: report name stored in cognos connection is 'sales'. Report is scheduled and a filter is set to 'prev...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Cognos Data Module - Restrict Table and Column Name Changes

When the Tables are imported into the Data Module Column Names with Characters such as underscore (_), dash (-), or slash (\) are replaced with the space character and the names are changed to Camel Case. Replacing Table and Column Names is not id...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Integrate Cognos Analytics with SAP Hana

We are looking for a solution to integrate Cognos to SAP Hana as data source connection.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Navigation Paths for Data Modules

Need to have the option of bring a navigation path create in a data module forward when you link it into another data module Steps Create 'Data Module A' which contains Navigation Path(s), security, property setting Create 'Data Module B' ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Toggle between Measures in Dashboard Visualization

If I am building a dashboard and I want to use the same visualization (PIe Chart for example), I would like to create the visualization only once and display it on the dashboard only once and then have some means to toggle between various measures...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Bit type from MS SQL Server

We use a Bit field as a boolean to indicate if a record is the current record for our customer. Currently, it is not supported and requires casting to another type.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Need to calculation a summary value for calculated ratios based on calculations and not by average in Dashboard

If we create any ratio calculations in the dashboard by default the resulting value is summed up, which is wrong. Also, if we change the summary property to average then it is giving a value which is nearly right but we are not getting the exact v...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration