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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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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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Allow tab names based on data when exporting to Excel from Cognos Analytics On Demand

When exporting to Excel from Cognos Analytics On Cloud Hosted we were able to have an admin switch turned on: Set RSVP.EXCEL.PAGEGROUP_WSNAME_ITEMVALUE to true This meant Excel exports could have meaningful tab names based on the data in the repor...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Planned for future release

Allow IBM Cognos to connect to and query materialized views in Google BigQuery.

Querying a materialized view is often more performant than querying a standard view because the results are precomputed and cached. This is ideal for dashboards and reports that run predictable and repeated queries. A BigQuery materialized view is...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 3 Not under consideration

Templates for reports cannot be used unless they are saved under the " Templates " folder in Team Content in Cognos Analytics on Cloud on Demand

Due to the limitations of Cognos Analytics on Cloud on-demand environments, users can not modify Team Content files such as Samples and Templates. Once a report template is created and saved as a template, performing modification on it doesn't cha...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Reporting on Bounced Emails

I would like to be able to receive a notification from Cognos when an emailed report from Cognos Cloud cannot be delivered due to the recipient email address not existing. I'm thinking of situations where an email address was entered incorrectly, ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Adding an option to paginate the API call: /api/v1/users?identifier={namespace_id}

I have a namespace that has grown to have over 81000+ users which has caused user load and removal process to run inconsistently. This is due to a timeout limit during the GET request. It would help the API efficiency to add pagination to the API ...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Provide Cognos Analytics on Cloud Integration with ServiceNow

Integrate Cognos Analytics on Cloud with ServiceNow to query ServiceNow data in Cognos.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 2 Functionality already exists

Customer wants to set a Schedule report frequency multiple times a day. there is no option to schedule hourly refresh in the on demand offering.. Currently we only have options for Daily, Weekly and Monthly as per documentation

Response from Support - From: JEREMY BEATHAM < jbeatham@au1.ibm.com >As we’ve covered previously, the capability of the product is more limited in the offereing chosen to develop this solution. As previously highlighted for other functionali...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Google Big Query driver for Cognos On Demand Cognos Analytics

I would like to use Google Big Query in my On Demand Cognos Analytics environment. But the Google Big Query driver is not available. Please add it. There is already a ODBC and JDBC driver available: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Audit Database access in Cognos Cloud installation

Fir Customers using Cognos in IBM's Cloud environment. the Audit database can only be accessed from within the application. resulting in not being able to use the Audit extension package or use any other software directly against the Audit Databas...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Island (Enterprise Browser)

Many companies are migrating to "Island" for increased security, and we would like this browser to be supported by Cognos. Thanks.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration