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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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KPI visualization in reporting

The KPI widget in dashboarding is a much used visualization. It gives a lot of insight, without using much realestate. However it isn't available in reporting. Having the visualization available in reporting would enhance the reporting experience ...
4 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Make the -H switch mandatory when generating a CSR with Third-Party Certificate Tool, OR either print a warning, or default to the current host if not specified.

Currently the documentation for 12.1.0 does not specify, in the topic for generation of CSR files (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.1.x?topic=certificate-create-signing-request-csr-files), that at least one Subject Alternative Name ...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Implementation of permission settings on tabs in the Cognos Analytics dashboard

We have a customer requirement to make data available in a Cognos Analytics dashboard. However, there are different groups of users who should see different content. Therefore, it is necessary to use permissions to show or hide specific dashboard ...
11 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Remove dependency for unsafe CSP headers

Our company ships a product that leverages Cognos Analytics. Our Pentest results have, for years, flagged that Cognos uses the following CSP headers: 'unsafe-inline' - allow inline scripts in our index.html 'unsafe-eval' - allow any eval() in our ...
12 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 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 ...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Data Source for OnBase Document Management System

Currently in IBM Cognos, there is no data source add capability for Highland's OnBase Document Management system. it would be really helpful if IBM can add a data source to read the documents stored in OnBase to use it in Cognos Reports or Dashboa...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Manage/view another users scheduled report/activities without using an Analytics Administrator license

There are hundreds of scheduled reports that are managed by departmental users. if the owners of the scheduled reports are unavailable and/or the schedules need to be re-run, The Activities screen lets them see the progress of their activities in ...
17 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Allow multiple File System Root Locations in case of failure in Cognos Config > Global Config > Archive Location File System Root

In events of failure to reach File System Root Location for report deliveries, allow multiple File System Root Locations (list in order) to be saved so Cognos can point to another File System Location automatically, if one fails it goes to second ...
18 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

An NLG (Natural Language Generation) Customization Studio for Watson in Cognos

Create a dedicated "NLG Studio" within Cognos Analytics that allows administrators and business users to customize the tone, terminology, and key metrics used in Watson's automated insights. Users could create and save custom narrative templates f...
19 days ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Submitted

roleValue should work with measures for the intrinsic properties

When using a measure set, it is very difficult to get the caption of the current measure in a variable. If you wanted a custom format for specific measures in the set, you have to find a clever workaround instead of just making a data item with ro...
20 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted