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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).


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,

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  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Cognos Analytics

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Enabling Concurrent Query Execution for Master-Detail Relationships in Reports

Concurrent query execution for reports containing multiple layout components (e.g., lists, crosstabs) generally works well when properly configured. However, there are specific scenarios where concurrent query execution is not possible. One notabl...
about 10 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Configurable Query Retry Mechanism for Enhanced Query Reliability

Our backend utilizes Trino on S3, and we occasionally encounter intermittent error messages, particularly when a single Cognos report generates multiple queries against the same data source. This issue is more prevalent in scenarios involving mast...
about 10 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Allow multiple File System Root Locations to save scheduled report outputs

Supporting multiple Archive Location File System Roots for saving scheduled report outputs would allow Cognos to store reports across different storage servers for capacity planning, departmental separation, or migration scenarios. This would bene...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Accessibility

According to the Accessibility Conformance Report currently only the Content Navigation (including Manage options), and report output, are ‘supported’ when it comes to accessibility. This means navigating in any of the Studios and Cognos Administr...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Timestamp on output file name should show same as server timestamp as it currently show UTC.

When user downloaded scheduled report, Incorrect timestamp shows (GMT timestamp) on saved report name. This is leading to confusion for end users as these reports are used for their timely analysis.
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Use report package drill-through in dashboard

Working within Dashboard and creating a crosstab or chart, using as source packages where drill-through reports are set up, those drill-through reports are not visible at all. To take advantage in Dashboard of the investments made in reporting, co...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Enable Per-Namespace Logout URL Configuration with id_token_hint

We request the enhancement of IBM Cognos Analytics to support namespace-specific Logout URLs, rather than the current limitation of a single, global logout redirect. In environments utilizing multiple authentication namespaces (e.g., a mix of SAML...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Scriptable Reports: Support headers, footers, and group spanning when using the setColumnDisplay() method.

Currently this method doesn't work for custom controls when the list has a header, footer, or group spanned rows. That makes this function/method almost useless when the report has the on demand toolbar enabled. Users that try to aggregate or grou...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

AMAZON ROOT CERTIFICATES TO IBM JAVA'S CACERTS

We do not have to import manually if this has been part of IBM java's certificate
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Administratively - have the ability to renew credentials on behalf of any other user

System Administrator should have the ability to create/renew credentials on behalf of any other user. This helps if a user has not logged on or their account was dropped and re-added, helps to assign creds to schedules, or save schedules from cont...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted