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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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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,

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  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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Enable the use of parameter sets in SQL Data Quality Rules

It is requested that the SQL text of a data quality sql rule can be expressed using parameter sets that can be set at the project level, similar to what is possible in DataStage or an equivalent possibility that allows for identical rules, but the...
4 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Request for Individual Term Approval in Bulk Load Process

Hi, Currently, when we import all terms in a single batch, the workflow processes them as one step—either all are approved or all are rejected. This does not allow us to approve or reject specific terms as necessary. How it should work: When we lo...
6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Setting Variables, such as style or render, should be available on multi-selected items

If I want to apply the same attributes to multiple items in a report, then I can select the many items and apply the property.For example, if I want to apply the same conditional style, font to a number of list columns then I can select all the ap...
12 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Track Governance artifact management workflow status in visual way

Hi, We have the Governance artifact management workflow enabled in our Cloud Pak for Categories and Business Terms. We would like to know if there is a way to visually check the progress of the workflow and determine which step we are currently on...
5 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Macro functional parity of prompt/paramvalue and promptmany

The cognos macro language has the ParamValue function which is great for getting parameters without causing a missing parameter exception (and a prompt appearing). ParamValue can only be used for single values. It has feature parity with the Promp...
25 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Enable queryValue() and queryValues() for Report Queries and Data Items

As of today, both macro functions queryValue() and queryValues() can only be used with direct source paths (e.g., package or data module). It would be extremely beneficial for report authors if these functions could also reference report queries a...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Drill-Through Mapping for Reports

Having the ability to see how a report is linked to/from other reports via drill-throughs, would be very useful see at a glance as opposed to manually following the drill-through tool.
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

There needs to be a Default setting for font effects.

There needs to be a Default setting for font effects. The font dialogue box has Default options for Family, Size, Weight and Style yet does not have a Default option for effects (Underline, Overline, Line through). This makes it difficult to turn ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Select a delivery method while running a report with full interactivity

When running an ad hoc report from the Cognos portal, there is a noticeable difference between full interactivity mode and classic mode. The option to select a delivery method is only available in classic mode, meaning users cannot send the report...
11 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Mobile App - View Most Recent

Currently in the web version of cognos, you can set the properties of a report to view the most recent version, instead of running it fresh. In the new cognos mobile app, this option does not work, which is a problem (especially for long running a...
12 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted