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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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Cognos Analytics

Introduce a native parameter to proactively warn or block users from executing memory-heavy view creations at the user-view level before calculation begins

Why is it useful: This enhancement would prevent catastrophic server crashes caused by users inadvertently creating massive Cartesian products. Currently, dragging highly granular dimensions (like thousands of serial numbers) into an unsuppressed ...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Data Module Filter By Names Should Update in Dashboards

Data modules provides a filter by capability. In a dashboard this allows you to create a filter by picking a name and filter by a code. Reports have been able to do this forever - report prompts have a use and display value. An example is product ...
3 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

Compatibility Support for GITEA for CA 12.1.3 which currently support GitHub and GitLab only.

GITEA is a painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD. It's open source under MIT license.
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Other Submitted

Ability to see privileged user activity related to account management: adding / removing users from the security groups and who performed this activity

Cognos Analytics should provide a complete audit trail for privileged security and account-management activities. Organizations need the ability to determine who made a security change, what was changed, which user / group was affected, and when t...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Selectively retain the Welcome Message while removing other components and reclaiming the associated screen space

We are trying to display our company specific welcome message for reporting landing page on welcome banner with logo and message and trying to hide all other features. selectively retain only the Welcome Message while removing the other Welcome Ba...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config Submitted

Dashboard Views need a Save As Option

12.1 introduced Personalized dashboard views. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.1.x?topic=dashboards-personalized-dashboard-views One use for dashboard views is as described in the linked document this open the dashboard in a Consume...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

On/Off toggle for extensions

I would like to be able to toggle on/off various extensions. If I'm troubleshooting and need to turn off extension for a bit, then I have to download and delete, and then upload again to turn on. It would be nice to simply have a on/off toggle.
18 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Enhancements to the Share Report Dialogue window - enhancing kiosk / auto refresh mode

Within 12.1.3 the report share window now includes an option to auto-refresh. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.1.x?topic=components-auto-refresh-reports This creates a URL that runs a report is kiosk mode. To support this new kiosk ...
23 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal Submitted

Request to Reconsider HTTPS Change Due to Business Impact

We are writing to raise an important concern regarding the recent transition to HTTPS and its impact on our organization, STC. While we fully understand and support the importance of security, compliance, and modern security standards, the recent ...
24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security Submitted

Proactive AI-Powered Dashboard Monitoring and Intelligent Business Risk Detection for IBM Cognos Analytics

I propose adding Proactive AI-Powered Dashboard Monitoring and Intelligent Business Risk Detection for Cognos Analytics to make enterprise dashboards more proactive and continuously focused on emerging business risks, significant KPI changes, and ...
24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted