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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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Cognos Analytics

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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...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 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.
about 4 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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...
4 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...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted
699 VOTE

More Properties/Editing options for Rave 2 Visualizations

We would like more properties/editing options implemented into the new Rave 2 Visualizations (custom palettes specifically). Also would like to have the ability to add conditional formatting or a conditional palette to a visualization.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

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
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted
608 VOTE

Export Dashboard to PPT/Excel

It would be great if we would have the function (export Dashboard to PPT / Excel). We are having a lot of reviews with the Executives and most of time we are combining charts (e.g. some from Ops and some from other Finance team) into 1 deck, so wi...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration
538 VOTE

Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration
511 VOTE

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported with Cognos Analytics

Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported in Cognos Analytics. In the following article (IBM Cognos Analytics - Audit Extension Reports and Models), you can read:"The IBM Cognos Audit Extension is an as-is application. This means Customer...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration