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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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.

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    Change/Update ownership of Schedules to Service Accounts

    We would like the ability to change or update the ownership of schedules to service accounts. By default they are owned by the creator, however this leaves a single source of failure if the person would leave. Also when creating scheduled emails, ...
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 8 Future consideration

    ability to set default value for email delivery method.

    When users run a report using ‘Run as’ and select email as delivery method there will be two options they can select one or both.1. Include link 2. Attach output Prior CA 11.1.7FP4 the default selection was option 1: Include link. IBM made an enha...
    6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Planned for future release
    249 VOTE

    Rerun schedule

    Sometimes it is important to be able to rerun a schedule. Cognos 10 had the funktionality in my activities and schedules
    about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration
    244 VOTE

    Ability to freeze column headers in reporting crosstabs

    The feature in dashboard crosstabs to freeze column headers is excellent, and should be replicated as well in the reporting environment. This is a long standing user request that is very difficult to achieve today.
    almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration

    Real-Time Reporting Capability in IBM Cognos Analytics

    I would like to request an enhancement in IBM Cognos Analytics to support real-time data streaming for reporting and dashboards. Currently, Cognos does not natively support second-by-second real-time updates, making it challenging to use for scena...
    9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 5 Not under consideration
    260 VOTE

    Cognos Analytics / Dashboard / Data Player : Properties to control play speed and delay

    Data play at times runs too fast for the charts to keep up. results in choppy playback. Add properties to have interval delay, and loop delay
    almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

    Add "CM.OutputScript" style option to "Define File System Locations"

    Back in the Cognos 8 days, the only way to save reports to the file system was through advanced settings in the content manager service. With the addition of Define File System Locations, that greatly simplified the process. Back then there was al...
    6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration
    207 VOTE

    Different icons for default run format of reports

    In Cognos 10.2.2 the icons to the left of reports on the Cognos portal were different for each default format (i.e. excel, PDF, HTML etc.) but in 11.0.7 the icons are all the same. This is quite a useful feature for us, as administrators, and user...
    about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

    Layout Component Reference dialogue box improvement

    Layout Component References are an amazing feature - they allow us to build reports from a standard library of components ensuring user interface consistency and code reuse across hundreds of reports. They reduce report build times and reduce main...
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Smart Split Data Modeling

    When selecting to split a date item, allow for the ability to select a start of year date (e.g. calendar 1/2/2025 vs other (e.g. fiscal year 10/1/2024). In addition, add options to allow for selecting quarter. Quarter would be generated as a numbe...
    16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

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