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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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  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

Possibility to test cognos configuration via script instead of test-buttons in cognos configuration

We do not have logon access to cognos production servers. We would like to start test-cognos configuration via script instead of opening cognos configuration gui and click test-buttons.
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Delivered

Barcode Font missing in cp4d cognos analytics

Cognos analytics on cp4d does not support barcode fonts. Barcode fonts are not available. This a big gap when migrating from cognos on windows platform to cognos cp4d platform, as we have reports that displays barcode for frequent/daily scanning.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Delivered

certificates expiry check

We recently had production outage due to intermediate certificate expiry, while server certificate was valid. Please consider adding a feature to check expiry dates on ALL certificates in the chain: root, intermeate(s) and server, and alert Cognos...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config Delivered

Support for RDS for Db2 in Cognos Analytics

We are currently using Cognos Analytics in our on-premises system, with Db2 as the DBMS. As we are considering migrating our servers to the cloud, we would like RDS for Db2 to be supported in Cognos Analytics. (As a result of an inquiry to support...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling Delivered

fix the Cognos license counts for users who don't login

After Capabilities updated, admin licenses are incorrectly showing counts for users who don't login. Analytics Administrator license count should match the number of System Administrators.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Delivered

Would like to be able to match the color of the What's New and maintenance banner to match our custom brand colors.

When rebranding Cognos with our custom company colors, the banner is on the landing page and doesn't match our custom colors.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal Delivered

SMTP details to configure through cognos portal viewer

Currently, there is no automate way to access SMTP configuration using Cognos portal viewer. We would require IBM to take this request and add options in Cognos portal UI. Or we can either access it using Advance settings parameter would be ease t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal Delivered

Add Totals in stacked column / bar chart for every bar or column

Within Dashboard we require very often at stacked column or bar charts, that the total of all stacked cetagories is visible above the bar or column. Currently we can only enable / disable the values for every stacked cel directly at the bar. But n...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Delivered

Change search box color

The stark contrast from black to white can be a problem for some users. Suggest allowing ability to customize the background color of the black search box at the top menu bar (11.2.4 version).
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Delivered

REST API: Datasources

/api/v1/datasources currently returns only the items shown in the main (Glass? Carbon?) UI under Manage | Data Server Connections. This is a relatively new feature. Most of my data sources are in Administration Console... | Configuration | Data So...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Delivered